Before you buy things, try adjsuting what you already have....
Simply. do what you said and loosen, move, retighten the hubs.... and then drive the kart.;
Do NOT ask people 'what will it do tyo my kart..... do it and feel it..... then you'll KNOW what it does. The problem is that, like the rest of us, if someone tells us that X will do Y, when we try it, we will tend to THINK thyat it's done it.... even if it has had no effect..... and that explains homeopathy, too.
The next question is 'how FAR do I move it'..... this time you MUST NOT listen to everyone else..... for a start, move it as far IN as you can.... while still ensuring the wheels/trres don't rub on anything. Drive it like that for 10 laps or so and see what it FEELS like. Then return to the pits and move the wheels OUT as far as they'll go without falling off. Drive THAT set up for 10 laps and, hoepfully, by then, you'll know the difference in FEEL in the kart with changes in axle wdth.
The problem will be when you hear people telling you to move it in 1mm to 1cm (or whatever)...... you simply will NOT feel the change and, in 80% of the karters..... nor do THEY!
Rear axle width is a good one.... the change from wide to narrow is pretty 'linear' the change in handling is fairly continuous and the more you go 'in' the more it will handle like a kart with a narrower rear. Some things in karts are NOT like that. E.g., in an 'over jetted' engine, you will improve the performanced by reducing the jetting...... untill the perfgormance drops off because you are UNDER jetted. The rear-axle is not like that, the change in the handling continue, smoothly, as you change the settings.
If you then find that you kart feels better and better as you get wider but you finally run out of adjustment.... at THAT stage, you can think.... well it might get even better if I buy extended hubs, spacers or whatever.
So, try what you have got already..... you may not need to buy anything else....
Ian
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adjusting rear width by 's1jor1' (16 Nov 2010 @ 14:45)
