Not much to add here, just another kick butt video by the creative talents of Will Gentile and HeavyMetalConcepts. If you’re just catching up from this event, be sure to check out our photo album as well. Enjoy!
One of the advantages of the upcoming Pro Series Rotor is it’s precision in flatness. Every rotor will be double disc ground, as shown above, holding a parallelism of 0.002″. This, plus a new hole & slot combination pattern, makes for the perfect Ultra4 go-fast rotor. Pricing and release date still in the works, but we’ll be sure to post that here as soon as we get them worked out.
Brian Shirley was one of our very first Ultimate Unit Bearing prototype testers. It was October of last year where he first put our new design to the test, during the 2011 Glen Helen Grand Prix. His maiden voyage was the day before the big race, where drivers had a chance to both test and qualify. About an hour or so after heading out, we see Brian Shirley’s rig coming back to pits, on a fork lift, with a missing wheel. We could see Brian riding in the lift, safe and sound, but clearly something went terribly wrong.
We live and breath engineering, from morning to night and beyond, so needless to say our heads were racing at this point. This prototype was over 3 years in the making, with countless hours of R&D to ensure everything was absolutely perfect. How, oh how, could Brian get this prototype to fail the first time out???
As the fork lift got closer, it became clear our engineering worries were soon to be eased. Brian had suffered a very hard high speed roll during qualifying, and to no surprise damage insued. His wheel was literally in pieces, rotor bent, housing tweaked, but from a visiual appearance the prototypte Ultimate Unit Bearing was intact and looking good. We removed it, inspected it for play, and wouldn’t you know his Ultimate Unit Bearing was as tight as new.
Brian not only raced Glen Helen the next day on that same Ultimate Unit Bearing, he has been racing every Ultra4 and W.E.Rock Dirt Riot race ever since on that same bearing. It’s still running strong, as tight as the day he first installed it.
Good times.
Ben Napier is hard at work, getting his all new Ultra4 “Koala Punch” IFS racer ready for the 2013 King of the Hammers. Here’s a shot of his Spidertrax prototype IFS housing, taken right before it left our shop a few months back. Judging by the recent photos he posted yesterday on Facebook, his Koala racer will undoubtably be one to watch next year.
It’s hard to get King of the Hammers off the mind. So, why fight it. While you get your gear, and rig, ready for next years King of the Hammers competition, pick up a copy of the newly released Rise of the East King of the Hammers DVD. Created by the talents of HeavyMetalConcepts, this is simply one movie that won’t disappoint.
DVDs available at http://www.kohthemovie.com/home.php where you have the option of picking up an extra free copy of either The King of the Motors or the previously released Brutality DVD as well.
And, if all of that wasn’t enough to sell you, just check out this trailer we posted back in March, when details of the movie were just getting released.