">>> UN OFFICIAL <<<" of course - but based off all reports and tracker info I can find...
The #1904 Can Am Maverick driven by Cory Sappington finishes 3rd at the 2013 Baja 1000. The UTV class of 19 was the third largest class with total entries of 279 including UTV's, bikes, ATVs, cars and trucks. Finishing first in class 19 was the 1934 of Scott Kiger, second was the 1932 of Matt Parks, both driving xp1s.
The race is still going on for a few more hours, and expect more cars to finish.
More stories will be coming.
yep theirs was stock last time i heard from the race guys. after they blew up a few other clutches, the engineers at BRP gave them a few tricks to try, and they made the stock clutch work without blowing belts, and without any problems.
then why in the fawk are we dealing with this piss poor clutch? its good for the racers but for the general public we get to have an unreliable clutch system.
you must have been living under a rock then. Its all over this forum. just search it and you will be amazed at the issues we have and you will soon have.
mega, let me clarify, we are all aware of the issues, what I am saying is, if the factory engineers can provide info to a race team to make the factory clutch system almost bullet prof, as stated above why can this info not be shared with the customer base for implementation on our units? Hope that clarifies my statement, I was in a hurry to catch the Cardinal game so may not have been clear.
And since Airdam made that statement, I for one would see no reason to doubt it. You are a local so you know the Baja is no walk in the park, if it would work there, whatever the secret is, it would surely work for the rest of us.
Where do you do most of your riding?
BRP race team will hold on to their info and my guess we will see a revised clutch in future models. But there is no way in hell they will release any info to the public. They race to prove new parts and put them in new models, this way we have to buy a new unit to get the better stuff. BRP/CanAm has lost all respect with me, they can eat a high hard one. I gave them the benefit of the doubt for almost a year and i still have issues and now they will not cover them. Fawk BRP
i ride Glamis only in my maverick but, i ride Happy Jack area, and some local desert in my Teryx4. Look out for a few dates of X-mas light tours in the eastvalley in sxs's, i think its my 6th year and we usually have a dozen sxs.
It sure would be nice if somebody in the Phoenix area would run over and talk to Cory Sappington and find out if he's using the stock primary for sure, what he's done to make it better, how many belts he had to change during the Baja race, and any other pertinent information that would help fellow stock clutch Maverick owners out.
Ok guys... sorry it took me a couple of days to get things confirmed by BRP race dept...
the ideal setup using a stock clutch is as follows...
Factory Primary 40 deg Helix
API Gold Spring (PS13)
and if you stayed with the stock primary but to be the most ideal in reliability... go with the STM secondary that is use in conjunction with the Stock primary...
We have the options to go with all STM.. factory Primary/secondary and Factory Primary/Special STM secondary... We too run an auxilary Fan blower and a very inexpensive Temp gauge that monitors the exhaust temp at the back of the clutch cover...we never temps over 200 deg any more and not blown a belt in over a year.
sorry but just want to clarify that what you are saying above is a factory primary with original weights and spring and the stock secondary with a 40 deg helix and API gold spring. Or were you saying stock primary and STM secondary with 40 deg helix and API gold spring?
Simon didnt mention anything specifically about it...and now he's gone for a week for vacation...so no way I can ask until a couple of weeks...others may know tho.
I'm just not sure the one way bearing in the factory primary was compatible with the EB helix in the STM secondary and I didn't want to be the test dummy.
It's my understanding none of the teams use EB and definitely not with the stock primary.
The reason why the race teams went back to the factory primaries is bc there were failures with both STM and QSC primaries during races. When I say failures I mean actual mechanical failures with the primaries not blown belts. The stock primary is strong and doesn't fail it just doesn't perform as well. I assume their thinking was you can blow a belt and change it in an endurance race, but if your clutch is in pieces there isn't much you can do....
Doesn't matter what place you are in if you can't finish the race! So when you say the race teams had failures.....are you referring to high speed endurance races or did some of the woods racers and short course racers also experience failures?
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