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Summary: Keep track of your go cart performance. Learn some great tips on how to choose good go cart racing gages in this free video clip on go cart racing.
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About the Expert
Tommy Muth Tommy is the owner of Texas Karts in San Antonio. He has owned and operated it for 12 years. He has been racing for over 17 years and is a part of Hill Countr... read more
Hi, I'm Tommy, and on behalf of Expert Village, we're going to talk a little bit about gauges. The gauges on the go-kart--this is a Micron 4. They have Micron 4s and Micron 3s. The Micron 3s are the ones--they no longer sell them. They all went to the Micron 4. One thing about Micron is, if you have a problem with your gauge, you can send it in, and as long as it's a current gauge or like the Micron 3 still, they fix it for no cost at all. The gauges basically have a display on them--see if I can turn this on. May not be batteries in this one. They give you a couple different things. They give you lap times every lap. They give you RPM, and one temperature on this particular gauge. Now they have an upgrade to this gauge which gives you two temperatures, it gives you mile per hour, it gives you speed of the RPM of the motor, and it also maps the track for you. These gauges are completely downloadable on the computer, and you can take the data and actually, anywhere on the track, you can tell what RPM you were at, what speed you were at, what temp it was, G forces around the corners, and you can overlap different sessions and do simulations on top of each other at different sessions to see where you were faster. And, at point all my buddies, we were just going to buy one kart and we were all going to race from the gauge and just whoever wins electronically, but that wasn't very good. but the gauges are really cool to have. The best thing about them is they tell you lap time so you can tell if your driving is getting better or worse or how you're doing there.