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2008
November 2008 KORE nabs second at Baja 1000. The 2008 SCORE Baja 1000 was marked by relentless terrain diversity and technical sections not seen in years. Fresh from an important victory at the Primm 300, General Tire’s Team KORE was poised to tackle the course. (more)
November 2008 KORE Launches Prerunner system for Dodge Ram 1500 trucks after winning Best New Product award at the Off Road Impact show, competing against hundreds of new products. (more)
September 2008 KORE wins Primm 300. The Primm 300 is the roughest, most brutal race in the SCORE series. Hundreds of miles of rocks, sand and cross-grain pit drivers not only against each other, but against the terrain. Angered by a 3rd place finish at “Vegas to Reno” only two weeks prior, Team KORE worked non-stop, completely rebuilding the Power Wagon in record time. (more)
August 2008 KORE launches Recon and Technical Series suspension systems for Jeep JKs, both of which are designed to keep the geometry of your JK spot-on while greatly increasing ground clearance and ride quality.
June 2008 KORE launches first coil-over system for Toyota Tundra trucks, providing 2-4 inches of lift, improved ride quality, and 12.4 inches of quality wheel travel - more wheel travel than the front of most dirt bikes. (more)
March 2008 Class 8 took an unprecedented thrashing when KORE’s Stock Full class race truck beat all nine competitors in the legendary Mint 400. (more)
March 2008 KORE wins best suspension system at the Off Road Impact show held in Anaheim, California.
2007 June 2007 Kent Kroeker stands on the podium again for Second Place in the 2007 SCORE Baja 500. First ever finish of a 5.7 liter Hemi V-8 in professional desert racing. (more)
February 2007 KORE's trademark "Desert Assault" is issued to KORE by the USPTO. February 2007 Kent Kroeker submits two patents for components that will again change the industry
February 2007 KORE Beast appears as cover truck and feature article for March 2007 issue of "Off Road Magazine" It all started five years ago. The top-secret Off-Road magazine satellite network started to collect spy images of 8,000-pound, Cummins-powered Dodge Rams flying through the air. Since we hadn't seen many Dodge trucks taking flight since Walker Evans was doing it 20 years ago, we decided to investigate further. What we discovered was Kroeker Off Road Engineering, codename "KORE." (more)
January 2007 KORE reconfigures the Beast, experimenting with changes in polar-moment. In order to optimize traction and the performance of the rear suspension of the new Hemi race truck, KORE experiments on The Beast by reconfiguring the rear tube work. (more)
January 2007 Kent Kroeker awarded "High Riser of the Year" at the Off Road Impact show in Las Vegas. A former Marine, Kroeker started building suspension products in his garage. "If every day you're not doing something scary, you're not living." (more)
2006 December 2006 KORE acquires and begins to build out a new Stock Full race truck powered by a "Hemi" V-8. KORE is currently building a Hemi-powered, regular cab race truck that uses Fox 4.3 inch bypass shocks in a unique configuration designed by Kent Kroeker. The 2007 Baja 500 will be its first race. (more)
December 2006 KORE begins to work with FLIR on a plug-and-play infra-red video system that will allow racers to safely see through dust (more)
November 2006 Three KORE 3.0 suspension-equipped Stock Full race trucks tackle the SCORE Baja 1000 (more)
August 2006 KORE works closely with Fox Racing Shox to bring the first patented "Float" suspension systems to the automotive world (more)
July 2006 Kent Kroeker consults during the fabrication of three Stock Full Dodge Ram Race Trucks February 2006 KORE equips its Billet Control Arms with the new Evo Joint, a part machined from solid 4140 January 2006 Weld Racing wins Best New Product Award at the Off Road Impact show in Las Vegas.
2005 December 2005 KORE releases the KORE/Fox 2.0 Pro-Series equipped Chase Series suspension systems. All weather, all terrain. The CHASE SERIES uses the same high-performance VR coils and mini leaf packs as the RACE SERIES and incorporates a shock that has been specially-engineered to fight any abuse you can dish out. (more)
December 2005 KORE releases the inimitable "Unlimited Series" suspension system. The suspension system against which all others are compared. Designed from the ground up to maximize the potential of the HD Dodge chassis. If you have the skills and drive to the edge, the UNLIMITED SERIES is for you. (more)
November 2005 KORE presents the Unlimited Series suspension system at the SEMA show in Las Vegas August 2005 Kent Kroeker designs a new Dodge bump stop that absorbs immense amounts of energy and will not push out of the holster
August
2005 KORE introduces its Billet Control Arms. The first of their
kind, they prove to be indestructible works of art. We
choose to machine many of our parts out of solid billet aluminum.
Sculpting parts from solid blocks of metal permits us to engineer unique
solutions, to create shapes that would otherwise be impossible using
conventional fabrication methods.Patent pending. Application no. 29/240,120 (more)
July
2005 Kent Kroeker helps design the most innovative off road racing
wheel in existence - the Weld Commando P.R.O. July 2005 KORE introduces the Race Series Track Bar
May 2005 KORE brings its race-proven, consumer-friendly version of the variable pitch coil spring to mass market, rebadges it "VR" for "variable rate." KORE developed these coil springs to tackle the Baja 1000. Imagine a street ride that is softer than stock, yet with more roll-resistance for cornering and less dive for braking. Arguably the most advanced coil springs on the market. Patent application no. 29/254,878 (more)
March 2005 KORE introduces the patent pending "Billet Drop Block" -patent pending application no. 29/240,112. The purposes of the Billet Drop Block is to relocate the anti-sway bar rotating point downward, to a more neutral position. This takes pressure off of your end-links, thereby taking the anti-sway bar, which is an integral part of your suspension, out of the equation for the first few inches of wheel travel. (more)
February
2005 at Kroeker's behest, Casey Folks approves KORE's rear shock
configuration for "Best in the Desert" Stock Full racing 2004
November
2004 KORE introduces its Race Series steering stabilizer. Patent
pending - application no. 29/240,113. KORE
is not price-point driven, KORE is technology driven. At KORE, there is
no acceptable return rate. There is no acceptable failure rate.KORE
builds the best products using the best engineering and the best
materials we know of. If there's a better way to do it we're probably
already working on it. (more)
November
2004 KORE petitions SCORE to permit rear shocks to protrude through
the bed of Stock Full race vehicles. Sal Fish calls the KORE "Beast"
race legal. November 2004 Kent Kroeker Solos the Baja 1000, places third, then drives same truck home the next day. It is the first Cummins-powered vehicle to cross the finish line of the Baja 1000. Kent drove for 29 hours 23 minutes and 10 seconds, bringing the Dodge Ram across the finish line and directly to the podium. (more)
October 2004 Using patent-pending shock mounts, KORE fits first 3" x 11" travel Fox shocks and Kroeker-designed variable-pitch coil springs on front of a Dodge Ram 2500 4x4. For the UNLIMITED and RACE SERIES, our patented Hybrid mount system permits our specially-designed, proprietary 2.5" diameter racing shock to be bolted into the stock location. These mounts are machined from solid billet 6061-T6 aluminum. Thousands of miles of racing and not one failure - that's why we guarantee them for life. (more)
2002 November 2002 Kent Kroeker posts class win in Baja 1000 riding 330 miles with U.S. ISDE team 2001 November 2001 Kent Kroeker gets second in Baja 1000 riding with Rudy Iribe, Bobby Laughlin and Rod Hamby (more)
2000 June 2000 Kent Kroeker and Tim Withers take second in Baja 500 1998 June 1998 Kent Kroeker solos SCORE Baja 500, only Iron Man finisher March 1998 Kent Kroeker solos SCORE San Felipe 250 for a class win |
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