<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">All you poor people that didn't grow up with a family go-kart track...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Karting Kettle, Elkhart Lake...my Grandpa built that....</div><div dir="auto">Sorry, not sorry!!!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Karen</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Erik Jacobsen via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> </div><div>Date: 12/31/20 8:24 AM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: fot@autox.team.net, garygret@sbcglobal.net, fubog1 <fubog1@aol.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Fot] 25th Anniversary of the FOT 2021 </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp5d12d477yahoo-style-wrap"><div></div>
<div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">I was allowed to use the engine from our mower in my go-kart during the week as long as I re-installed it on the mower Friday night, so I could mow Saturday. All was good until I got ahold of some nitromethane from a drag racer friend around the corner... BTW, 10% is fine in a 4hp Briggs, 20% not so much. Apparently pistons are only supposed to have the one hole for the gudgeon pin! <img data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" width="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f923.png" height="16" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" alt="Emoji" title="Emoji" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)"></div><div><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Jake</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br></div>
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On Thursday, December 31, 2020, 08:16:46 AM CST, fubog1 via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" class="ydpbda5e821yiv0504259577gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:39 PM Gary Schneider via Fot <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" shape="rect">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Glen, that's great! My dad built me a go-kart out of plywood and an old reel lawnmower when I was around that size or a little bigger. I discovered my first speed mod: it went lots faster if you tied a string to the throttle and pulled it open past the governor. Turned out not for very long though, a big BANG clang-a-lang-a-lang after a few hot laps of the yard. My first motorized device and the first engine I blew up. Ungrateful little hellion. Fortunately there was no photographic evidence or body cams to capture the guilty look.<br clear="none"></div>
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On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 9:13:16 AM CST, fubog1 via Fot <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" shape="rect">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:
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