Back in the late 50s my father got us a simplex kart with a Clinton A400 engine. The distributor was a friend Lex du Pont, whose father had owned the Indian motorcycle company and the DuPont motor car company. Lex and his brothers were always doing something in their shop and one of the first engines I saw him work on was a Power Products chainsaw engine. One day after school I rode my bicycle over to the shop and found Lex on the Bridgeport mill machining a block of billet aluminum into a head for his Power Products kart engine. That had to be sometime back in the late 50s/early 60s. He was running 2 diaphragm/pumper carburetors but I think he had one feeding the crankcase and another mounted on the cylinder. A bit later McCulloch came out with their MC10 kart engine which I had on a Bug Wasp. We raced karts until the local track closed down and it became harder to find places close by. Unfortunately the karts got sold and I got my drivers license... and here I am 74 yrs. old thinking about doing it again. Over the years I’ve raced motorcycles but the karts started it all. Mac Morgan, Hockessin, DE
So I take it this is a lot of period correct malarkey and machining that goes in these things. Do vintage guys get pissed when a dude pops a Gx160 race motor on these carts? Are they comparable or completely different? My father passed away 2 months ago and I'm trying to figure out a memorial build. I can rebuild 2 strokes as far as weed whacker motors, is it the same concept? Are those piston ports for passive combustion or just for light weight? I know you guys gotta run big carbs for the displacement and must end up with a lot of overload due to the short combustion time, do those ports allow for a double ignition on both ends of the stroke? I am completely new to this and you have some pretty serious skills. Let me in on some secrets, maybe some suppliers or links. Here's a kart motor I built. I left the tank on, I love the white honda tanks ruclips.net/video/NhFFKL1laAc/видео.html
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Back in the late 50s my father got us a simplex kart with a Clinton A400 engine. The distributor was a friend Lex du Pont, whose father had owned the Indian motorcycle company and the DuPont motor car company. Lex and his brothers were always doing something in their shop and one of the first engines I saw him work on was a Power Products chainsaw engine. One day after school I rode my bicycle over to the shop and found Lex on the Bridgeport mill machining a block of billet aluminum into a head for his Power Products kart engine. That had to be sometime back in the late 50s/early 60s. He was running 2 diaphragm/pumper carburetors but I think he had one feeding the crankcase and another mounted on the cylinder. A bit later McCulloch came out with their MC10 kart engine which I had on a Bug Wasp. We raced karts until the local track closed down and it became harder to find places close by. Unfortunately the karts got sold and I got my drivers license... and here I am 74 yrs. old thinking about doing it again. Over the years I’ve raced motorcycles but the karts started it all.
Mac Morgan,
Hockessin, DE
Awesome machine work, definitely not first time!!! Looks nicely done!
Interesting result! A similar ending to Lex du Pont’s engine 60+ years ago!
Welcome back ive been waiting for new videos for way too long. Hope you are well! Ive learned a lot from your channel, thank you for the content!
Gorgeous
So I take it this is a lot of period correct malarkey and machining that goes in these things. Do vintage guys get pissed when a dude pops a Gx160 race motor on these carts? Are they comparable or completely different? My father passed away 2 months ago and I'm trying to figure out a memorial build. I can rebuild 2 strokes as far as weed whacker motors, is it the same concept? Are those piston ports for passive combustion or just for light weight? I know you guys gotta run big carbs for the displacement and must end up with a lot of overload due to the short combustion time, do those ports allow for a double ignition on both ends of the stroke? I am completely new to this and you have some pretty serious skills. Let me in on some secrets, maybe some suppliers or links. Here's a kart motor I built. I left the tank on, I love the white honda tanks ruclips.net/video/NhFFKL1laAc/видео.html
Could you do a vid covering timing the engine using the ignition module when you set up your rebuilt engine?
FYI - was done with a timing light, really the only way to set timing with those modules.
Looking for a points cam for AH80?