On 05/26/2010 05:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yup, gimme a 2 stroke, and if its built good, I'll give you something in the > 2hp/ci for giddyup. I figure my last go cart, with its 13.5 cid deflector > head water cooled engine, was making a good 25hp, cuz 100 mph was not a dream > if the sprocket was right. The tracks I ran it on were slower than that, so > the 15/78 I was running made about 90, but it could do 80 from 25 in 75 feet. > Mind you this was an elderly Gopher cart that scaled at well over 100 lbs > without me! Make that 60 feet if the tank was full of booze instead of gas. > I was an equal opportunity annoyer. > > I firmly believe that anyone applying for a drivers license must first goto > the local cart track, and spend a few days trying to break the track record, > and will only qualify for a road test in daddy's Lexus if they came within > 1/2 second of it. > > Then, and only then, will they have an inkling of how to handle a dicey > situation on the street, after all that practice of its getting out of line, > doing a spinout or whatever, all without mussing up the form and paint on > daddies $36k chair car. Enough time on the cart that when things go tits up > in traffic, they do what they need to do completely from muscle memory. > > We could cut the traffic deaths by 90% or more with just that change.
One of the bennies of growing up in farm country were big, wide open fields that farmers let go fallow for a year or so, and what we used to call "field cars." Dad would get us an old clunker, drop it off in the field, and let us have at it. We'd spin donuts out there, get into intentional skids and actually learn how to control and drive a car rather than letting the car control us. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
