Joel Martin Introducing himself. (MRP-SPEED.com)

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Dear All,

I am rather new to the whole buggy scene, but I just wanted to let you know that our company Martin Racing Performance will be dedicating itself to work with several leading distributors in the next few months. I come from a scooter / motorcycle background. I have been riding since I was 6 and have spent the last 7 years in the scooter industry importing Malaguti, MH Motorcycles, and Polini. The last two years we set up a race center here in Miami with full Dyno from Land and Sea and I have purchased equipment to design our own in hourse exhaust systems and new cylinders. After testing and design completion we have them made in Europe or in Asia. So far we are the leading distributor and after market tech support company for the scooter industry in the US and we would like to have the same success in the Kart business. So far Diamo USA www.LS-Motorsports.com has agreed to allow us to distribute performance parts to their dealer network for their buggys, it seems TJ powersports will be doing the same and is sending us samples of their buggys. Right now we have a Dazon 125 in the warehouse which we are working on. As more distributors seek us out we should have more products available so stay tuned.

We will let you know what brands we support and what distributors are working to make your experience better.

Best Regards,

Joel Martin
President
www.MRP-SPEED.com

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Joel! Really great to have you here. Welcome to buggy news.

We'd love to have an easier way to get your parts. After finding your site many months ago I was a bit dissapointed to find that it was only for dealers to purchase parts through.

The more parts sources we have, the better, for these buggys!

Thanks for introducing yourself.

Ps... I moved the topic here as you had replied to a twister 250 announcement instead of starting a new topic somewhere.

-Steve

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Welcome,

Great to see another player in the
kart market. Hope to see some parts
for the Titan/ Peirspeed kart.

Chris

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Welcome Joel,

You already have some performance parts at marting but they are not easy to come by! As Steve mentioned, it would be awesome if we could buy direct. There are rollers, belts and potentially a big bore kit which may be made to work on some of these karts. Your GY6 9 and 10 gram rollers are sought after right now for our 150's.

I suggest you take a look at the 2004 tjpowersports 150 GY6 clone engine AND the honda helix 250 which will be replacing the 150's in sales volume soon. A good choice of exhust systems of bore kits would do well!

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Welcome Joel,
As you might have guessed I am a T.J. Powersports fan. I would love to see new upgrade options for our buggies. It sounds like engine mods are your thing, but there is about 1 billion dollars waiting for a guy to make a front end suspension upgrade kit made for our 150cc buggy frames. Many of us are wanting a bit more travel before the arm hits the bottom of the buggy. It is between 4 and 5 inches of good shock travel. If a spacer of some type could be made to lower the connection point of the arm to the bottom of the buggy, the arm would then have more space to travel up before hitting the bottom of the buggy.

I would love a complete set of performance shocks made for our buggies. Get some dude that knows suspension to make some medium cost shocks designed the best way for the weight of our buggies.

With new engine drop in kits and more 150cc performance parts, our buggies are going faster and faster. We are starting to need ways to keep the power on the ground, and have a better landings.

If you just stick to engines parts sorry about my rambeling. I still want you to make us the best engine parts you can!

Again, glad your here. Smile

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I'm scared to death of braking someting on my Xterro because I know replacements will be months away... anyone who can reliably supply regular replacement parts like I can order at any car dealership will make a killing...dont know if that's where your going with it or if it is even possible right now, but that's what I'd like to see!
The first thing I need is those sliding rails the seats slide on... I need to extend them for my son.

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Heath, is that a smurf?????

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Heath, I think you should mod your smurf to have a home depot drain pipe protruding from his rear...although I'm being a wisecracker, I'm doing it with a smile...just as chuckling as I am visioning it in my mind...Oh, boy...you prob won't see the post buried in here...

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And while this welcome to the board is kind of turning into a wish list..... Smile

Being your in contact with T.J Powersports, put a good word in for the altra killer padded bar set made for the Talon with the matching roof bonet with a yellow Talon Claw graphic on top?

Electrical system upgrade ....

Just say the word and we can go on... Smile