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Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days
Posted by 'alex205' on 17 Nov 2008 @ 19:08

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Hi

Following on from my previous post about total kart/driver weight I have been doing some digging and have a second issue. The general consensus is that the engine needs to be checked every 2-4 hours and potentially rebuilt every 9 hours, though the tal ko website suggests 8-20 hours.

To begin with we will only be using our kart on practice days to learn how to drive properly/quickly so gaining the last 100th of a second is not important, what is important to us is consistency, reliability and not costing a fortune to practice every couple of weekends?

Can you suggest please what we can do to acceptably extend the life of the engine between major inspections/rebuilds i.e. to get to the Tal Ko suggested 20 hour rebuilds which would be more than acceptable to us? My first thought is to restrict engine revs by fitting a restrictor from the junior classes (purple)

Is a different engine to use in practice days a posibility? or is sticking with a BT82 the best way forward as we do intend to go racing at some point in the future

Thanks for your help

Alex

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Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'alex205' << You are here!

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'buzzinrussell' (17 Nov 2008 @ 19:16)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'bpc' (17 Nov 2008 @ 19:24)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'itpro' (17 Nov 2008 @ 19:27)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'John' (17 Nov 2008 @ 19:35)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'buzzinrussell' (17 Nov 2008 @ 21:57)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'JohnForce' (18 Nov 2008 @ 8:00)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'Iwan' (18 Nov 2008 @ 10:20)

Re: Extending a TKM's engine life - practice days by 'alex205' (18 Nov 2008 @ 22:19)

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