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outlaw karting with Stewart K5
DoldGuy:
Flyin9,
Thanks for posting the pics. I am saddened, (and sure you too!), to see that work of art pancaked like that. That header has a tremendous amount of work in it with that amount of cones. As stated above, the pipe repair companies can do a great job of fixing pipes, and I am sure that one had large $$$$$$ vested into it. The blue groove pic looks great also (running the cush to sling shot on the apex??) Thanks Again for posting the pics.
GDubb:
If you had invested that much into a hand made pipe where you cant openly state the price, and it only lasted two sessions(motos, practice laps, what have you) then why not build some protection for it? I'm not ridiculing, just curious if there is a good reason.
-G
gwcrim:
That looks like more fun than humans should be allowed to have.
flyin9:
the reason the pipe bent was because i was upside down on the track and a guy ran me over. that dosent happen to often. the pipe was 600$ no one has any pipe protection because there is really no god way to attach it other than putting a big box around it, it would be simply to big bulky and weigh to much, at 435LBS for the weight. when i said the pipe was expensive, i was trying to say that there were a lot of hours put in to it and it is a shame to see it destroyed. the guy that makes them is backed up over a year right now making parts so it is hard to get one.
gwcrim- strap a rocket to your butt hop in a small bath tub and dont let the left front touch the ground. its a great time. I race against a lot of ex-stock car drivers that their car budgets ran dry so they oppted to karting which is much less. they say that reaction times are much quicker and they seem way faster.
Good:
I grit my teeth in desire to control one of those things (or try to anyway! :-D)
With a Stewart motor, you should be able to walk away from anything out there given proper tuning.
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