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Oscar Aguilera
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| patrick slattery wrote: | | Oscar Aguilera wrote: | yea ive seen and heard those numbers before....i usually see a seat way laid back when i hear those numbers...
honestly i havent scaled a kart in years....i dont have lead to put anywhere and i put the seat where it goes and that is usually enough that i might have one tire a pound more than another?? but i havent experienced that either other than tracks that have many more lefts than rights or vice versa.
im usually same pressure all the way around....maybe hubs are different for me on one side compared to another?
on banked tracks i do alot more.
im 5'7" 165# an average euro size...even though im a mexican....so i dont have much trouble with the kart. i fit and with the seat in the right spot it is good for my legs and arms.
unless i bent the kart i dont find a reason to scale it for my height and weight.
but when you do add lead and scale the kart most are surprised by how much they need on the right side of the kart. |
Oscar, do you add lots of right side weight because you start with your seat farther to the left? Typically, I normally have to add weight to the left side if I am using the standard seat placement on most Arrow karts |
well when i weighed 140# i ran a kt100....so that motor is really light compared to a shifter motor....but when i add weight to my shifter and scaled it some years ago...i always had to put the one #10 brick from the center to the right on back of the seat....
you have the radiator and driver is more to the left....so that is how it has always ended up for me on several karts and several different manuf.
i have scaled other karts with other drivers and basically found the same thing? so if you have alot of lead some of it will have to go on the right side.
and the further foward on the seat you put the lead...you will affect that side front corner too. like under the leg on the right will affect the front right side a bit. |
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