It was only hard to the extent that KPX is a bunch of knuckleheads and they will lie until the cows come home about having done something. They told me 3x that they would take care of getting me the part but days went by and nothing. They finally hired a new shipping/parts guy who only after receiving my defective crankcase cover via UPS sent me the replacement, but I had to call him after it sat there for a day to motivate him.

I actually like the kart and find it very east to work on. i recently added a speedometer ($10), foam padding on all the pipe that surrounds the driver and a new homemade air intake after a day in the mud bog.

Max speed was observed at 34.7 mph with the digital speedo. If my air cleaner works well and I add a pipe and rejet I hope to pick up a few mph.

 

where did you get the speedo and what brand? also, sometime hopefully this week i plan on rejetting mine and i'm going to try a few air cleaner mods. keep us posted on how things go with it.

good luck,
josh

 

Walmart-Bicycle dept. Schwin Speedo. A little mod to the magnet and fabrication of a mounting bracket and I was good to go!

 

thanks for replying. what my wife and i are wanting to do is to go up to windrock atv(coalcreek) in tenn. we are not far from there. i ridden dirt bikes for over 30 years, she's a new comer. i'm afraid i might be a little hard on them, but i cant be to agressive, dont want to lose her.. so mainly, just some good easy trails but with a little kick now and then. i've talked to jay at family gokarts and steve at kpx. although, these are basically the same karts, arent they? i am thinking a carter xtv single for myself and a carter talon twin seater for her. but i like the power. any other help or advise would be greatly appreciated. thanks..

 

i actually bought that same speedo but havent installed it yet. what type of mod and fabrication did you have to do? i've been checking the speed of my kart by having a car follow me. i would like to get that speedo installed so that i can use it when i'm on the trails.

 

here is what i have found out from carter about their carts. when the talons were in their "infancy", they had engineers over in china to oversee the production and design of the carts. the carts that are similar to the talons are supposedly almost identical. there are some minor changes to the frames, but nothing drastic. the xtv 1150 and 2150 are the only carter carts that are USA. their website does have all of the parts that they produce for them. it doesnt look to me like there are many performance upgrades for those 2 carts. carter told us that since the talons are so new, there arent many performance upgrades at this time but they said that in a year there should be third party manufactures that are going to be making a killing in that department. in my opinion, i would opt for a single seater talon for you and the twin seater for her. i guess not necessarily a talon, but one of the carts along those lines. i think in the long run you wont regret it.

 

In order for the pickup sensor to be close enough to the magnet, I used some 3/16" diameter aluminum rod abut 5" long, bent it 90 deg, krazy glued it to the bottom of the shock mount and zip tied the sensor to the other end. This allows the sensor to extend into the wheel. I sawed off the screw mount from the magnet and glued that just inside the wheel rim lip. Be careful where on the wheel you mount the magnet as the clearance between the brake caliper and the wheel is tight.

 

what size tires do you have and on the speedo what size rim did you select?

 

Tire height was 18.5", you'll have to do the math as I forget what my speedo input was. I seem to recall @ 1500 +/- Convert your inches to metric and x by pi. per the instructions

 

The easiest and most accurate thing to do is mark you tire and roll it across the garage measuring distance the tire makes in one rotation. Convert this to metric by multiplying your inches by 25.4 to get mm, for example 50.25" x 25.4 = 1276. this is usually the number you enter into the computer on bicycle style speedometers. check your manual to be for sure. I think this is the number for a 16" bicycle tire.

I think I am remembering this right?
Kell