I once built a go cart

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Wow some rare bikes there. Scott squirrel 2 stroke. I always liked them. Not seen an Indian-four-inline. I thought they were all V twins. Nice collection, worth some money now.

Steve.

[Iain.SParticipant @iain-s]

Long time ago but I used to race karts. Started in 100 International whilst I was based with the RAF in Germany (mid 70's). Zip chassis with a Parilla engine. Racing was good but the drinking was better (afterwards I hasten to add).

Once posted back to UK, I moved up to 250 International; Zip chassis with a Yamaha air cooled twin, reversed barrels, stuffed crankcase & 32mm Mikuni carbs. Sounded awesome and went like a bat out of hell. Raced in the Yamaha Challenge at various circuits around the country (3 Sisters, Little Rissington, Snetterton, Fulbeck, Kimbolton) with a small modicum of success. Even managed to get it flown out to Akrotiri in Cyprus for some demonstration runs; the first time such a beast had been seen on the island. It got a lot of interest from the locals.

All finished when the Rotax in-line twins appeared and it got too expensive for me. Still miss the thrill of doing such speeds with the backside 1/2” off the ground.

Iain

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Were your engines the YDS3 variants, that reved to 15,000.

My dad was a speedway rider in the war. Won lots of cups in Italy where he was posted. It's strange I always knew how to tune an engine for performance but never knew how I was able to.

Steve. .

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

Fantastic model cars (this a model engineers forum). Love to see the full size one. (LOL)

Paul

[Iain.SParticipant @iain-s]

Posted by Steviegtr on 09/04/2020 02:31:05:

Were your engines the YDS3 variants, that reved to 15,000.

Steve. .

It was a long time ago but if memory serves me correct, yes. Don't know about the 15k though. It had a rev counter fitted but I rarely looked at it whilst racing. Things were happening too fast.

Iain

[Author]

Posts