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The best chassis is the one you can afford or make work.

You put the valve core back in when rolling internal or does it not matter?

This answered so many questions as a new guy to karting

Hey Ben what prep smells like peppermint?

Hi mate. I have a question about your Bama. Where do you get your electric power valve setup?

If they only came off that easy!

Is it worth it to wet sand those used friction discs on a granite stone?

I wanted a premier got a SLACK and is killing it !!!!

Amish Ben

I give them a coat of wd40 after I pressure wash them off after the race night, an usually a coat after the heat race, if I think they feel a little to smooth I fire the kart up an hold some sand paper against them real quick, I keep it simple lol

Field reset to the prior lap?

Mounting and dismounting tires

Not sure how far away from ams u are but u should stop down to Lockhart raceway down here in PA its about 2.5 hours from ams best facility on our side of Pa iv got a bunch of videos of the track we would love to have ya down

I loved when my son ran treads when he first started racing in the rookie classes. It was definitely cheaper for us. Were hit or miss on slicks. We either get it right or really get it wrong. The more i learn about prepping and the more i talk to people at track on how low they run their duro here in the NE the more i get confused 😆

Thanks for the POV footage! I agree, you kept your nose clean, threaded the needle, and should of been awarded clean air.

People are lazy! Everyone wants to just show up and race

I just started racing go karts last year and I love prepping tires and learning new things with prep i don’t know y anyone would want to ban it besides the people that don’t wanna put the work in to learn how to prep tires. 90% of wins r made through out the week in the shop while the other 10% is made at the track to many people just wanna be lazy and show up one day a week and race and then not touch there kart until race day again that’s what I am getting out of all this. KEEP PREP AROUND

I agree with you Ben. It's part of it and I know very little about tires but I enjoy learning and trying different things . Like you say most areas have a track or a class that leans towards those racers, no prep, sealed engines ect.... if that's what you want jump in that class, I probably going to get yelled at but not everyone puts in the work it takes to get good , they just want to show up at the track and expect to win with no effort put towards it. Not everyone is a winner and not everyone deserves to win. Hard work pays off no matter if it's chassis set up or tire prep. I get lucky and win every once in a while, I get beat and I try to work on the areas I'm getting beat in . That's racing to me. If it's not crying about tires it'll be crying about something else.

Just add a class with no tire prep but the extra rule you can't run both class that night. After a few months of that the eliminate which ever has the smaller kart count.

Ive posted on a few videos about whether karters would race s no prep. Only because our local quartermidget club has been tossing around sunday night kart racing, but club is afraid the kart prepped tires could get picked up after the dirt gets turned over time having the prepped tires from karts.. if we get caught with prep its a ban.. multiple times its lifetime ban

Thanks for posting this .

What in tarnation is going on here? You handled it better than me! 😂

In my experience with clones if the plug was fouled it wouldn't have even started up for ya... most times a lack of rpm would be valve springs, carb or timing... definitely seems like you got bent over on losing the lead there though unless they or he claimed he spun to try to avoid i guess 🤔

You got localed by the homies

Your light is reflecting through your glasses onto your white board on the track tac logo.....too funny!!

That does not make sense having the lead taken away.. unless they are saying that he was spun by the guy behind him.. the lead was yours..

So prep isnt the problem.. you can be fast on Burris without prep... is that the answer,, HELL no. Ben is right it wont work, people will cheat.. What needs to happen at these swap meets is TIre symposiums where Kurt burris comes and teaches what situations need what preps work when and where. or even local shop owners.. Or more importrantly WE NEED TO HELP NEW PEOPLE!!! quit making tires and prep so intimidating by shareing your knbowledge..Yes thats gonna bring them up to speed and make them competition, but that also means they will come back because they arent lost and getting smoked every heat.. I went to Ben hur last night and we had 16 trailers. Not due to economy, but Joes inflation isnt helping anyone. There were lots of big money races surounding and honestly it was nice.. i dont mind small crowds.. do i like having a feature with 16 karts.. yes but a peacefull night of racing is so much more rewarding..

My local track has a hobby class with sealed engines and Reaper tires with a dirty tire rule. It gives people the option of a low cost way to start racing or just a low key hobby. The hobby classes are popular and get more people into the sport and the ones that want to grow can continue with clone racing and open tires. It's a great compromise that works. Keep the great videos coming!

we started at Millbridge for that very reason…no way we would have gotten into anything with prep

I still firmly believe if tire prep were banned across the board, it would be huge for the sport and popularity. We’ve had tons of drivers (I’d bet over 100) over the last few years that tried karting and got out quick, and the almost universal answer was they are intimidated by tires and tire prep. It’s unfortunate, but the reality is that unless every track goes to no prep, it’ll just put the tracks who attempt it out of business. They have to survive the initial fallout which I don’t know is possible.

Wonder why they have a burris 33 rule is that to sell more prep or keep everyone on a equal compound tire?😂

I will be honest. I hate prepping my tires every week but I understand why prepping is done so I will continue to prep them to keep up with everyone else.

I know him