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The motor looks great and I like 5 port motors but I am going to wait to see if the fuel milage is in the 10's like you say. I was watching the Live RC Fuel Nationals broadcast and when they interviewed Kortz he said he can just get 9 so that means he has to pit at 8 and Drake was going over 12 with the +4 and that is one less pit than Kortz at the Australia race. I know his +4 is not stock but I see them go 10+ all the time. If this new 5 port will go 10+ I will get one because Werks has always been good to me.

Thanks Davidka, pricing this engine this low and choosing to compress my margin so much is probably one of the biggest gambles that I have taken since I started making engines. Time will tell if it pays off but from purely a performance stand point I can tell you that I'm 100% happy with the design of the engine and I think that everyone else will be too...

I can not wait to get my hands on one of these motors I have been wanting another 5 port I was thinking of going with the RB 5 port but I would rather have the werks if it will be out when they stay.

smittyusmc, engines shipped to A-main today and they will have them in stock tomorrow. I'm going to be upfront and say that we only received a small shipment right before Italy shut down for vacation (which they do for the month of August, wish I lived there lol). So if you want one I would highly recommend that you back order one through A-main cause once they are gone, they are gone until mid September!

Great move Ron:nod:, wish you every success with the pricing strategy. :nod:

Marcus,

Don't tempted to purchase simply because Drake runs it. The engine that NR provides him will not be stock as you mentioned, his NR engines would be specially modified from the factory with a pin welded to the backplate this stops people hacking with a dermal, don't forget when Drake ran the Picco based engines he was modifying from his garage.

You nor I will never have a chance of obtaining the exact same engine that drake runs never period. I can guarantee you if Jim H from fusion is still the importer he wouldn't be able to get his hands on the same spec engines that Drake runs.

With the B5 as Ron mentioned the exact same engine has been tested and run at major race events by Kortz and has lasted multiple meetings..win win:nod:

I know we cant get the Drake motor but I need Fuel Milage. Our club races are 10min and we run with electric cars and Nitro cars that go 10min. I got burnt at Silver State because qualifiers were 10min and the 3 guys that finished before me did not pit. If the Werks motor will go 10+ I will get one, we will see in October at NitroX at the Nitro Pit. In expert buggy if you have to pit one more time in a race were the guy in front of you does not it is a disadvantage, This is what Kortz said not me.

Marcus, those of you that have seen me posting on here know that I'm a pretty straight shooter about things. When it comes down to engines, engine set up and run time there are quite a few variables. At the nat's (where I was at with him) we never had the opportunity to actually put in a complete 10+ minute run (at race pace) to check the actual run time at that specific track. This is one of the draw backs of having a single car team at an event like the nats, you are so busy trying different set ups without being able to bounce ideas off of other team mates that you are always pressed for time. So first off to run over 10 minutes (at that type of race) without actually checking it would have been a gamble something that we could have done based on the fuel that was left in his tank on the occasions that I timed him in practice (7 minutes hard with no crashes, no traffic and over 1/3rd tank of fuel left).

Secondly after having been left out for an extra lap at the last wolds which resulted in him being run out of fuel by his pit team at 9:45 seconds (with the old B7-Pro C at the Farm!!, thankfully it was not me lol) he is extremely conservative about how long he stays out there. Always choosing to pit an extra time versus even attempting to push it.

Third, you have to compare apples to apples and in this case you are not. First, Drake is (supposedly) running a $300 based engine, something that right off the bat is 50% more expensive than the B5. Secondly he was running a 6mm reducer, we were running a 7mm reducer simply because we did not have time to test engine set up's (read the single car team portion above for an explanation of why). At that track if we were running a 6mm reducer and limiting throttle opening we would have gained an easy 45 seconds, but you have to have time to test this! Third, there were quite a few Novarossi's (and every other brand imaginable of engines) and no one else that I can remember went over 10 minutes except for Drank in the A no matter what type of motor they ran. And finally you are attempting to compare the B5, a 100% bone stock, production engine (that had over 6 gallons on it when we started the race :D) to a Novarossi factory modified engine. Which if you have ever seen one of these, comes straight from Novarossi sealed and with the back plate glued on so that you can not even open it. To be honest, even the drivers do not know what they are running and I can guarantee you will never, ever be able to buy it.

And having said all of this I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to take anything away from Drake, he is an awesome driver, drove an awesome race and deserved to win it (even though I wish Kortz and him would not have tangled up in the main which broke Kortz shock as I think we had a top 5 car ;-). Believe me when I say that I also have the ability to do one off engines, make special parts and probably could make a 12 or 13 minute engine for one person if I wanted to but that is not my philosophy. We run stock engine, what we race with you can buy and in this case we ran the US Nationals with a $200 engine and made the A main and finished 8th running over half of it with only 3 shocks lol! Something that not a lot of other companies can say:D

Regards,

Ron Hopkins
Werks Racing

Hey Werks

on amain it says that they will not be available until the 19th but you said that they shiped today is that from Italy or some were in the US thanks.

They are padding it. A-main is about 90 miles away from us and we shipped them to them today (from here). They will have stock on-hand tomorrow and will probably have them showing in stock in their system by tomorrow afternoon or the day after at the latest. Hope this helps!

Regards,

Ron Hopkins
Werks Racing

Drake drove an awesome race but i can tell you it went further than motor that allowed him to go that long.and i can tell you the public wont see what it is.and thats all im saying.
anyway I for one think its awesome that Kortz runs a stock engine in major events. leaves us regular folks to hit the track with a little confidence.
as far as runtime i will let you guys know as I hope to run one really soon..
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For $200 I am going to order one just to try it:) That is less than a engine rebuild.

Will this engine have enough low end for a truggy? Thats where i was thinking of putting it, but looks like most people are thinking of this as a buggy motor. Is that what this was designed for rather than a truggy? The track I race on has a lot of short run ups to big jumps, most people have to single the jumps including me.

Werks, on the crankshaft of the B5 are there any balancing slugs or epoxy filling? Regardless I feel that I will give this motor a try. How can one go wrong with an Italian 5 port mill at that price? You can barely get a sport motor for 200 bones.

Madbrad, I see from you sig that you have a B7 Pro in your buggy. SO it's really easy for me to give you a comparison. Just think of the same, linear power band with more bottom end and slightly less top. In a nutshell, it will run fine in a truggy!