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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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 title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f923.png" width="16" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Jake</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><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 class="ydpbda5e821yiv0504259577gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;">I discovered the same as Gary did with the Tecumseh engine on my Rupp go-kart when I was 13 or 14. After about a year of this the flywheel exploded, with the heavy magnet portion deciding to end its union with the rest of the lump. I felt a big impact behind my right shoulder just before the engine suddenly lost power. I was damned lucky that the chunk with the magnet (which must have weighed 2 or 3 lbs.) bounced off the steel tubing supporting the edge of the sheet metal seat pan, saving me from a serious injury. I found the piece about 30 feet away in the grass.</div>
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<div class="ydpbda5e821yiv0504259577gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:39 PM Gary Schneider via Fot <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">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 shape="rect" href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:
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<div><font size="2">ps- here's my picture in advance, the 1st racecar I ever built, my brother John is driver.</font></div>
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