Various documents of information on motors from the past

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VICTA a downloadable PDF by Glen Gray on rebuilding a tuned 50 year old Victa

YAMAHAS a page of rotary valve Yamahas

Very special DAP T80s modfiied by John Humphries. A great example of home grown ingenuity. They also have anotable history in the hands of Brian Hunter.

 

PDF documents - right click and select "Save link as" or "Save target as"

"Owners Guide to Rebuilding the Current Rotary and Reed Engine". Articles from the 1980 Australian Kart Report 

 

Parilla TT25 from  Australian Kart Report

 

Various engine articles including DAP, Rotax, TKM, TG14 & Yamaha from Australian Kart Report

 

Preparation of Mickey Allen's SIRIO

 

Info on DAP, BM and PCR motors form the 80s provided by Bob Uhlhorn at Australian Gokart Spares

 

Komet K88 specification. Also useful for K77 and K78.

 

Some history and info on the Parilla SS20 

 

Homologation specs for Parilla TT22 and Parilla TT25

 

Details of various BM motors provided by Chris Arnold who races as BM/BM in the UK

 

TKM article

 

Komet K80 article

 

TILLOTSON - Graeme Sutton had provided some info sheets on the different Tillotson Carbs

VIDEOS

Build a McCulloch kart motor from a chainsaw engine

Part 1, Part 2

 

Editable Documents

Documents in Word format.

If you have corrections or additions please download and send an updated version or new documents to VHKAus@gmail.com

Parilla Pistons :- Information and advice when fitting new 48 series pistons 

 

LINKS TO ENGINE INFO

Engine info on Retro Racer site

Italian site www.federicascarscelli.com

Lots of McCulloch information on MacBobAust 

USA McCulloch site  

The IAME History site with lots of photos of their motors

Rebuilding a McCulloch Mac 8