Gokarts that go 30-50 MPH!

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Well yesterday me and a few friends went to this new gokart place they had one thing where you accelerate 0-60 in 2.9 seconds! well anyways Like i was saying we were riding these gokarts and we were racing and eventually i won by over lapping them 2 time!!!!
( Man i am good. :lol:) well the only reason i overlaped them 2 times was because I was winning and then i was about to overlap my friend that was in 4 th place i think and he spun out right in front of me I hit him head on my glasses fell of and now i have a scar on my new :lol: it was still fun then after a 1 hour and 30 mins at the arcade we went again to the same thing and only us two so i raced him and then i was like screw this i will mess around with him so we messed around some then all of a sudden he spind out AGAIN :mad: :lol: and i was probably going topspeed or about 49 MPH and just hit the brakes and I did a 180!! I was like WTF how did this happen so then i just went backwards on the track and the guy got mad but since my friend bout 16 works there we didnt get in trouble:D I was pretty fun going in gokarts that go 50 MPH! so anyone ever done something like this before?
 
There are a couple of indoor tracks in the area with fairly nice karts, somewhere in the area of 6hp, there's one outdoor track with 45 or 70mph karts, but I haven't been out there yet.

In my experience the tracks like to overstate how fast their karts are too :p 50mph is pretty fast, is it a big course? I don't think I've done much over 30 on either of the local tracks, I'm sure the karts could do it but they are pretty small indoor tracks.

Here is one of my favorite pictures, me taking out a cone :)
 
Go carts are great. We use to have several go-cart places here in the STL area, the best one went out of buisness several years back, I had my 13th B-day party there. :)

This other place, Boschertown, is right by the MO river and has flooded over before. They use the old go carts, completely free of electric control. They even use to have a fountain that when you went around 1 turn water would fall right ontop of you which is always great. The track is big enough for a 323 race, wide, flat, and easy to drive around. The carts aren't too fast(they have faster carts but last time I went I wasn't old enough to drive them. So on the slow carts you can do pretty much whatever you want, they don't like it, but they really can't do anything. So me and my bro would go and we'd ram each other, try to do pit manuvers on eachother, and swerve all over the place slamming on the brakes and just having fun. Last time I went was with him several years back and I had the slowest cart there. I even was pulling on the throttle cable but it didn't go much faster. So then the time was up and 1 guy stands with a stop sign and all of the carts stop before going into the parking lanes. So here I am, last one still driving around going flat out and not having a heck of a lot of fun. I went down the straight towards the other carts and was kinda falling asleep cause it was so slow. I approached the guy and passed all of the other people and just slammed on the brakes with all my wieght and they locked and I slid sideways screetching as loud as a street car and stopped right infront of the guy. He wasn't too happy. :)
 
i race almost every weekend at a local track. i have a 100cc yamaha engine (2-stroke) that redlines at about 14,000 RPMs the guy who had it before me took it to daytona and had an average speed of 105mph! that is with a single gear and 18hp. they also make shifter karts which have 80, 125, or 250 cc dirtbike engines on them with a 5 or 6 speed tranny. i believe that at road america in elkhart lake wissconsin the shifters were doing faster laps than the Porsche's
 
Forgot to mention that my dad use to have a Mark 8 racing cart that was good for about 45mph. It was awsome. At the time he sold it I was still too young to physically drive it, but I rode with my dad many times and it was fast and low to the ground. My dad let my bro drive it in our front yard(wow what a mistake!!) and my dad went inside. When he came back out my bro was doing flat out donuts in the grass tearing it all up. He was done driving that.
That cart was sold to one of my dad's co-workers who let his kid drive it and he wrecked it and hurt himself and they sold the cart. We've got no place to ridea go-cart around here though.

Also we had a go-cart chassis in our basement for years. We either gave it or sold it to one of my bro's friends who put a big single cylinder on it and it was fast as all hell, I think he put 2 space saver wheels on it too, and had a sort of performance exhaust set up.
 
Theres a track in Trafford Park near Old Trafford called Daytona karting Manchester I go to sometimes, they do about 40Mph. A mate of mine used to have a kart with two engines at the back, that was meant to hit over 90Mph.
 
Originally posted by Boz Mon
i believe that at road america in elkhart lake wissconsin the shifters were doing faster laps than the Porsche's
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I wouldn't doubt it, the shifter karts racing at Portland International Raceway are faster than a street Porsche around the track :) They max out at around 120mph, but I don't think they drop much below that for a lot of the corners.

A note about the picture I posted above, I watched the track for a pretty long time, and I was the only person I know of who managed to spin a kart that day :D I think the rest of the folks there needed to push a bit harder :p
 
Ya, 60+MPH go karts so often in Asia, especially in Thailand and Malaysia... And they are pretty cheap and good quality. But the best thing is that some of these 60MPH go karts go on dirt and its sorta like WRC in the dirt and so fun with the drifting.
 
Most of the Karts I've driven were pretty weak.

There's a place around here called SpeedZone, where I've been once. The really cool thing there is the Slick Track. They put a special coating on the track so you can drift the karts!

Also very cool are the formula karts. They have a quite large track, with Karts that are much bigger than the usual Kart, and look like a shortened F1 car. I haven't had a chance to try them yet, but I know they must be pretty serious, as you have to have a drivers license to drive them.
 
Originally posted by Maklov
Ya, 60+MPH go karts so often in Asia, especially in Thailand and Malaysia... And they are pretty cheap and good quality. But the best thing is that some of these 60MPH go karts go on dirt and its sorta like WRC in the dirt and so fun with the drifting.
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Care to recommend where?
 
Originally posted by Party for GT4
The reason it did a 180 is because many karts only have rear brakes. Hit them too hard and you spin.
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Yeah. this is what i was doing.
I was just entering the turn then alll of a sudden I lost my line and I was turning the wheel right to make turn and I kinda screwed up and was about to hit the wall when leaving so i just slammed on the brakes and did 180 and was like WTF happened and then i noticed i was going wrong way :lol:
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Oh yeah I will make a map of the track in about 20 minutes It wasnt very big.
 
Originally posted by Party for GT4
The reason it did a 180 is because many karts only have rear brakes. Hit them too hard and you spin.
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You're supposed to lock up the rear tires by doing this (braking really really hard, I'm talking bending-the-pedal hard), then scrub the tires at an angle (| driving direction, / scrubbing direction). You'll brake a lot harder and you're able to set the kart up better for corner entrance.

It's a bit tricky, so you need to practice this.
 

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