XXX#40
2A supporter
So you are ok paying 1500-2000.00 for a cheap industrial engine?As much as I hate to see an American company bite the dust it sort of serves them right for trying to cram the Animals down our throats years ago.
I didn't see them cramming anything. We raced everything including the peanut butter metal clones. It was a hundred bucks and worth only a hundred bucks. Compared to the Briggs they popped like popcorn. We quickly dropped clones and went back to the Animal which in the end turned out to be best motor in the garage given the number of times we raced and won with it. kartracer_3,,,, were they so expensive that Briggs did you wrong? Is a National, and I say National motor worth $2k? I think so.
It's ridiculous to think that the absolute cheapest piece of peanut butter metal clone (of Honda and built by slave labor from a communist country), is the only answer for a kart racing motor.
Personally, I believe it is, just reward, that the top line racing clones are now $2k. Fifteen hundred to make them last and $.5k to make them fast.
DK
Remember briggs has a factory in china, and it was because of Chinese briggs rods that the billet rod was allowed