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Summary: Don't overheat during the big go cart race! Learn some great tips on how to choose a good go cart racing radiator 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, my name is Tommy and we are speaking with, on behalf of Expert Village today. We're going to talk a little bit about radiators. There's different styles of radiators, any of the water cooled motors have to have a radiator on them. This is one of the smaller ones, it goes on a TAG motor and these run a hundred and fifty dollars or so and then you have the mounting to mount them. All the way up to, like the Champion radiator, which is like the top of the line and they make them in different sizes, and basically it just gives you better cooling for your motor, whichever size. Now a lot of times, in the winter we end up covering them up with either tape or some, some of the companies now have made venting for them, where you can close the vents off, all to control the temperature. When we tape them up, at the beginning of the race, you run with the tape on and as you, as your motor heats up and gets cold you can take the tape and pull the tape off, kind of like tearing the tear-off, off your helmet. Most all of the radiators are made out of aluminum, they are susceptible to rock damage and stuff so a lot of times they put screens over them and they are also accept, susceptible to getting damaged by someone hitting them in accidents and stuff. It's one of the more expensive things on the karts that can get damaged, but they, they definitely need them on all the water cooled stuff.