BuggyMasters.Com - An On Line Mini Buggy Forum and Go Kart Forum

Go Back   BuggyMasters.Com - An On Line Mini Buggy Forum and Go Kart Forum > Off Topic and Other Forums > Mini Buggy Reviews

Mini Buggy Reviews Want to share your experience with a particular buggy? Do it here!

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 09-20-2009, 04:52 PM
BuggyMaster's Avatar
BuggyMaster BuggyMaster is offline
Administrator
 

Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,311
Default BuggyMasters Review: Manco Scorpion 606



Manco was purchased by Ameican Sportworks a few years ago. This is one of the go karts they made prior to the buy out. This is another one of those machines with a great pro and a heavy con.

The pro is that they use what I consider to be the best go kart engine out there: The Suburu Robin. As a comparison, a Tecumseh engine is a service life of about 150hrs and they are done. The Suburu, on the other hand, sports a service life of about 1000 hours. Pretty big difference. Not just that, they also incorporate mecanismm into their engines that allows them to be started rather easily. This is a huge plus if you want your kid to be able to start the machine on their own. Finally, the engines just run great. An excellent engine, indeed coupled to a Comet TAV30 torque converter.

The heave con on these is the steering system. Just a poor design and just an overall funny feeling, almost a little unstable. If you are shopping for a go kart, you would be best served buying one with a dual a-arm design. If you look at the pic, take note that there is only one a-arm per side. The better, and more stable systems, use an upper and a lower. This doesn't mean that all of them with a single a-arm design are bad, but there is a noticeable advantage to the double a-arm system that is worthy of looking into. These also use a rear disk brake which typically works better than the band style.

Pros: Uses probably the best go kart engine you can get.

Cons: Poor design in the steering system

Overall Buggymasters Rating: 5 out of 10.

I would have rated it lower had they not used such a good engine.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:58 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.