i have some experience with the carter brothers talon. i'm thinking that the talon is along the lines of the hammerheads and kpx type carts. i have the 2 seater 125 and it tops out right at 36 with the cheap mods that i've made. the worst part about the talons is that if you call the company, they will not send you any parts whatsoever. you have to go to either the place you bought it or a talon dealer. the only problems that we've had so far is everything was loose and everything, even electrical, needed to be gone over. my trans/reverse assembly wobbles also. sounds like that is something that all these similar carts are having problems with.

 

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Originally posted by: bickel76

Wow... that sucks. Can't believe that. You would think Carter would be more responsive to customer services... I guess they just want to feed more sales to a dealer. Well,
I guess it's not that bad since there are a good number of on-line dealers for them. But still.

So what kind of mods did you do to the 125??

-Steve

 

He has the single seat Dazon. So we ballasted it(him-205lbs versus my wife-125lbs) to make up for the difference in weight.

If the price difference between the Dazon and whatever other kart(KPX, Twister, Carter) your looking at is only a couple of hundred bucks, then I'd pony out the extra cash for the Dazon. It appears Dazon goes the extra effort to build the better kart. In my case, the KPX's I bought were $700 a piece cheaper. So I can do the motor/gearing upgrades cheaper than it would've cost me to go with the Dazon's.

Plus the Dazon's have a bench seat, and I liked the KPX's buckets better.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

hopsterguy-

here are the things that we've done to my kart. not all of them are actually mods.............
speedometer, rearview mirror, larger tires, larger axle sprocket, aluminum skidplate to cover the stock plastic one, and partially drilled out the center diverter inside the muffler. i think that is all we've done so far.

 

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Originally posted by: RAPTORAZ

Yeah, now that you bring it up, the seat is the one real thing that holds me back a little more on the Dazon.

I really don't want to go the $3500 option (raidermax) on dazon to get the buckets. Man, decisions.

 

I am not sure, but the single seat looks more than 75lbs lighter to me. when you factor in no extra seat, way less floor pan, no steel protective skirts for the sides of the rollbar, no fenders, smaller rack, less rollbar etc. At least that is what I was hoping. Put some alloy wheels on their and I bet it would be a lot quicker than my 2 seater. I still like taking my oldest along though.

Have you seen the sandhighway forum?
that cracks me up!
lots of anonymous posts there.

 

Yeah, that's true about weight... but if the heads/valves are actually different for better breathing, that explains a lot. Why have two different heads out there on the same engine if one is a better performer? Seems counter-productive.

I agree.. the sand highway forums are definately biased. That's why I was looking for opinions here. On the other hand, I found some review forums that were complaining about all the same stuff on the Dazons... poor quality bolts, loose bolts, etc.

But, if the dazons truely are faster, and more powerful out of the box, that can't be ignored I guess.

It does bug me also that the dazons don't come with fenders of some sort.

So, they are missing a lot, yet have an apparantly better breathing engine.

-Steve

 

I don't know, we are talking about 150cc here. It's not like any of them are fast. But it is fun! It's my adult sized power wheels. My wife and I call it the super happy family fun machine. She doesn't know as I was tearing up the backyard last night (by myself, no kids) I got that puppy on 2 wheels and about flipped it. It was pretty easy to control, just like a four wheeler. Felt like it was about 45 degrees, I am sure it just felt like it though.

When I go to buy something, I think it do death and then don't even enjoy it when I get it. Fortunately my wife doesn't suffer from the same problem. I do like shopping for bargains, but when we saw this buggy at Gander mt. (we actually had a date night without the kids) we bought it on the spot, paid too much but who cares, life is short.

When I took it riding by myself, I thought, what a dog. But after I got used to it (being slow) and put the pipe on it, I LOVE driving it, much better than my brothers Rhino. That thing feels like you are sitting in a skyscraper ready to tip over at any moment. It does have LOTS of power though.

 

Hey Kell Im still here. Hardly ever mess with the Kart. I did change the oil the first time last night.Too busy restoring 3 WW2 jeeps and 2 viet nam era jeeps.
What have you done to your Kart to make faster. Where id iyou buy it and how much.
Thanks Eddie

 

You can tell its a slow day here at work,

http://www.eastsidems.com

I think they called it a hp kit, I called to make sure they had it in stock (which they didn't at the time)
I had to pay $286 including shipping, but I think they forgot to give me the 10 bucks off.
Got the pipe, intake with air cleaner and jet.

Now it takes off and climbs much better. Pretty pricey though.
You are welcome to ride it with the pipe to see if you think it is worth it, if you can catch us home!
You could probably make your own out of an 8N exhaust from Tractor supply (hey Ive put them on 4 wheelers before)