Kart Racing

[Luke Beeson]

Ok, thanks anyway

 

[Luke Beeson]

Look at the wheels ??

 

[Lars Brugman]

Look at the wheels ??

The image doesn't work for me. Can you just post the link?

 

[Luke Beeson]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80903652@N02/7415912648/in/photostream Try this one instead : )

 

[Luke Beeson]

i don't understand nothing about setups, but maybe the direction isn't aligned, causing one wheel to toe in and the other to toe out. sorry i can't help you any more but i really don't understand nothing about this subject

How do you check the direction?

 

[Fredrik Arbegard]

Not sure if it could be done in this way but here's one idea on how to check it.

Take an A3 size paper, draw a line on it and place the kart on the paper so that the line is in the middle of both front tires.
This line is your wheel center line.

Make sure the wheel is set straight and then take a ruler and put it against the rims of each front wheel and draw a line which will if the wheel is in toe out or in position be angled.

From this make two new lines at each of the toe in/out lines perpendicular to the wheel center line and measure the angle between that line and the toe in/out line.

If set up correctly both anles should be the same.

 

[Rui F. Martins]

How do you check the direction?

i don't now but in road cars there are machines to check and align the direction of the cars, i don't know if there is any other way

 

[Nick Deeley]

How about an RD karting event? somwhere central ish - like daventry.

Whilton Mill? That's near Daventry, well known track. Fairly big, and twin engined karts for corporate use.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

I was karting at Whilton Mill on Saturday. On the crappy track though, as there was a race weekend on the International Track.

 

[Nick Deeley]

The international track is very good. I would guess they have owner driver events most weekends there.

If we were to do an RD karting event, we'd have to find a day and time to suit everyone to get the maximum amount of people to make it worthwhile.

 

[Rob Venn]

I'm giving this a go in october
http://www.daytonamax.co.uk/
I'm not sure if you could book them for a private event but they look cool