got this in an email right now

 

There's no point in having sticky wheels!

 

...when you're going around corners there is

 

oh ye of little faith...outside of the physics involved...and the principles required to get faster lap times...this shall have to be settled on teh track!

she pulls better lap times than 90% of the n00bs not in our group we see...heh

=)

 

shifter carts are like this X 20....the G's wear out ur arms so bad....u guys should try it

u guys can buy a good used one for 3000 disc slotted drilled brakes...all upgraded...

 

but we're not buying karts....we're racing in them

 

 

so sick when u take a shifter cart on open road...people stare like wtf...ill race anyone with the shifter car for pinks...

 

Kart Vader

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6529266MSrkbyQz

 

You see...here's the trick...when you go rental kart racing you level the playing field and its no longer who has the most money, but a test of simple skill.

I agree shifter karts are hella fun...in fact I'll probably get into professional karting just to get into the Mazda Kart series next season so I can punk the rest of those boys...and its less wear and tear than taking teh RX to teh track...cheaper too...

 

I intend to specifically build a rotary kart...

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/207768...g_engine_test/

 

Read your statement again!

 

so what's the gameplan for karting?

 

when you're going around a corner, you want sticky wheels so you don't drift and you can then get better times. i'm confused as to why you're confused

 

not sure. i need to see when my people were planning on going to the LA auto show. was gonna be on that saturday...but now it conflicts...

 

Hint: It's the word that starts with "w".

 

Kart in the morning, autoshow in the afternoon and night. We can make this an entire rx8club thing!

 

when i say wheels, i mean tires, not rims

 

I've always thought wheels = tires + rims. :P

 

well, in the olden days, it was the thing that got you from point A to point B. nowadays, it's rims, or tires+rims

 

I guess I'm old fashioned in more ways than one now

 

 

Well to this former racecar engineer, "rim" is the barrel part of the wheel, the part that is actually round. I hate how "rims" is now used to refer to the entire wheel. The wheel is the rims plus the wheel center, which is the part that has the spokes. With one piece wheels it's not as big of a deal, but when you have to deal with 3 piece wheels, you better get the terminology correct!

http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/tech/...jsp?techid=145

 

I'll bet the cavemen had discussion like this when they invented the wheel.