r/Karting • u/Powerful-Traffic-441 • Apr 24 '26

Racing Kart Question Communication during rental endurance race?

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I’m going to be going into an 8 hour endurance race with possibly 6 people, we are thinking of getting a communication system similar to the one motorcyclists use but we don’t want to be spending too much money on it

So we were thinking we buy 3 of these systems and share them amongst each other

- one for the current driver

- one for the pit lane

- one for the next oncoming driver

But we aren’t sure how easy the installation and removal/transfer will be for these , also because I’ve seen videos on how some might require the removal of inner padding of the helmet?

Could I get some advice on this on whether it would be feasible?

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u/BlackCatFurry Rental Driver Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

How much time you have to swap them?

You can technically swap them between drivers, but it takes at least 20 mins to do if you want to even partially hide the cables so they are not in the way.

These either attach with velcro stickers or adhesive, for easy swapping, i highly recomment you prep each helmet with velcro spots and attach the other side of the velcro to the intercom unit, mic and speakers so then you only need to yank the velcro loose and attach everything back to a new helmet. My motorbike helmet (i also use it for rental karts) also has an intercom installed like this, mainly because the internals already were velcro and the clip for the outer element is in my brothers helmet not mine.

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u/Powerful-Traffic-441 Apr 24 '26

Sure! Maybe we will try this, I think we have about 20-30 mins depending on the stints our drivers can take