Vintage High Speed Drifting - fastest racing karts

produced by http://VintagePowerSport.com ... the Vintage Karting Olympics was held at TNT Kartways September 16-18th, 2010.

This video is helmet cam footage of the 270cc dual rotary valve engine class, call C-Open back in the day when it was run. It was the most powerful class of Sprint Karts ever raced, and even today the straight away speeds are higher than any modern Sprint Karts raced today.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Quincy
• tnt
• kartways
• Open
• Helmet
• Cam
• sprint
• kart
• vintage

[gokartmaster123]

are these the wankle engines you were telling me about?

[foxkart61]

There are no wankle engines in vintage karting. The term "rotary valve" is the carb manifold induction valve. Most 2-stroke engines used on karts and other vehicles use piston port induction or reed valve induction. Rotary valves are usually a disc that rotates on the crank, the disc has a section cut out, so when the disc rotates it opens and closes a port to the crankcase for the carb to feed through. This is considered the highest performance induction method for a 2-stroke engine.

[mitym64]

always too fricken cool!!

[foxkart61]

These karts are a thrill to drive, but running faster than most of these guys is a real challenge since almost everyone running in this class is a former Grand National Champion, like these guys starting in front of me: Lake Speed, Terry Trader, Troy Brown, Kurt Burris and Bob Lapke.

[MrCarlosjbenitezalfa]

rotary valve engine 2 holes in the rod and replace at 45 min the roller cage ,,,thats the problem

[foxkart61]

No other class in karting has ever had so much SMOKE! Luckily nobody from the EPA has stopped by our vintage races! My kart gets about 4 miles/gallon, I think half of that fuel is just for cooling the motor and leaves as Smoke! The track was very slippery in the sections without sealer (the tight section), it was hard to get on the power much at all in these sections.