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procarbine2k1

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I think its a waste, but whatever floats his boat. I know he isnt the first to put a saw on a go cart and he surely wont be the last.
 

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When i was a kid in the 60's we all made/built/bought go karts. None were fancy and all were sort of cobbled together with whatever we could scrounge. Mine was made of the parts from my old soap box derby car with a Briggs 2.5 HP horizontal shaft moter off of an old reel-type lawnmower that a friend of my father gave me (greatesr present I have ever received in my life). The neighborhood rich kid showed up with a real honest-to-God ready made welded frame kart with a Clinton (I remember it as being refered to as a 5 HP) 2 stroke motor. That thing was scary-fast. Sometimes I wonder how it is that we are still alive.
 
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I think its a waste, but whatever floats his boat. I know he isnt the first to put a saw on a go cart and he surely wont be the last.

Couldn't agree more but, it just goes to show what a little thought useing whatever is available can acheive.
Good job, my kids would play on that all day and me too
 
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Back in early 1961 a friend put a old two man MAC on his Dart Cart but it was much slower than my other friend's Go Kart with a MAC MC10. The MC10 was geared 80:1. Seems like the old two man MAC was at 72:1?

The old saw may have been geared too low?
 

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