Werks Racing would like to congratulate team driver Evan Vail who raced at the Force Series this weekend in Savannah, GA, USA with 250 entries.

Evan took TQ in truggy running a B5-ProII w/2058 pipe, Werks “Pro Clutch” and Werks 30% “Race Blend” fuel and qualified in 6th in buggy running a standard B6 w/2058 pipe, Werks “Pro Clutch” and Werks 30% “Race Blend” fuel.
Evan went on to take the win in truggy and was on a potential podium run in buggy but his tires faded half way through resulting in him finishing in 5th.

Another awesome showing for Evan who is proving to be one of the leaders of the new generation of young and upcoming drivers!

Congratulations to Werks team driver Evan Vail on a hard fought 4th place finish in Pro Truggy at last weekends 600+ entry Wicked Weekend! Evan used a Werks B5-Pro II engine with 2058 pipe set and Werks 30% "Race Blend" fuel to power his truggy!

congrats, going by that truggy pic, how many deg of toe would u say that is?

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...f074ee49b8.jpg


Fred Costa takes 3rd place podiums in both buggy and truggy at the Brazilian Nationals this weekend. Big congratulations Fred :) :)

In truggy Fred ran the Werks B5 Pro Series II with 2058 pipe and Pro 4 shoe clutch (with 2 x alloy and 2 x carbon shoes with gold 1.0mm springs) and Werks #6 medium/hot plug.

Congratulations Fred!

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Hi MadMick, sorry to hear that you have had problems trying to contact our importer in Australia. If you would please just PM me over your contact info and I'll touch base with them and have someone contact you.

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Again I'm sorry to hear that you have had problems sourcing our product. If you are serious about being interested in picking up one of our engines and pipes as mentioned please PM me with your contact information. I will make sure that you are contacted by someone and taken care of.

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Ive just opened up my b5 to give it a clean cause it's been sitting for a while and I'm planning on running it soon and noticed there is a hairline crack running along the brass from below the top rim a couple of mm from where the locater pin would sit, all the way down to one of the ports. This particular engine has done not much work at all maybe 3-4 litres incl break in. Why would this have happened? It's never been run hot and had a very easy life. Prior to it being stored it was running fine and there was no issues at all. I will upload pics shortly.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...1a07901cc4.jpg

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...faca77b0de.jpg

Are you sure that is a crack and not a scratch/deep score? I've never seen a cracked sleeve before.

One thing I did notice that seems to be a little unusual from looking at your pictures though is what happened to the notch that we machine into the top of the sleeve for the locator pin to fit in? We machine in a perfectly straight groove in it. In your top pictures you can see shiney edges from the top section of the groove where it looks chewed up at the top and in your lower picture it looks like the top section of the groove is completely deformed and it's about twice as wide there as the rest of the groove we machined? Did the sleeve get stuck when you were taking the engine apart and you stuck an allen wrench or something like that in the groove and used it to rock the sleeve back and forth to get it loose? Just curious as I have never seen the locator groove in a sleeve messed up like that before and being metal I would think that it would probably take quite a bit of force to do it....

Hmm really.? Ok then no worries thanks for that..

I'm not sure if I'm understanding your response:confused: You posted pictures and questioned about a cracked sleeve and I'm asking a question about some things in your pictures because I'm trying to understand/figure out what happened and how it might have happened. Is that an issue?

In any case specifically my question was about what caused the damage in this area of the sleeve:


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...941d427163.jpg

Also the reason that I asked if you were sure it was a crack and not just a scratch or deep score was because cracks in metal usually form in a straight line and what is shown in you picture is not straight.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...936bec6556.jpg

Is there a crack also visable on the inside of the sleeve?

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...05b06446c8.jpg

A quick shout out to Werks team driver Jeremy Kortz who after taking a short break from racing is back! Now running for HB and in his first race with their cars he has direct qualified into the Pro Truggy finals at this weekends "The Dirt" Nitro Challenge with his B5-Pro II powered HB Truggy running Werks "Race Blend" fuel!

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