So let's get this straight, on the one hand we have Felkers who claims they can divine their setup from prototypes and spring riding. On the other hand, Extreme says that they want to ride and test on the actual production units before they finalize the setup. Given the amount of things that change between prototype and production, wouldn't that make sense? The Doo reps said the prototype XP had '07 screwed up clutches, how would testing on that do any good???? I also seem to remember that Extreme did fix the '02 Summits with a $300 hooded jet conversion for all their customers and they told me they did a bunch for lots of other folks too. I think it was the next fall before they had it figured out which did take way too long but they did fix them.
Lynn has created over the years this smoke and mirrors image that his setup has some really magic to it. I bought a sled a couple years back from Extreme, a buddy bought one from Felker. The worked pretty similar out of the box. Extreme said they had used the factory setup as a starting point, Lynn said his had the magic setup. Aways in to the season, Extreme called and updated my sled - Felker said he nailed it from the start. One Sunday afternoon we threw a couple back and decided to do some investigating. Turns out the Felker sled had a bunch of holes drilled in the shock tower and all the factory clutching and jetting. Extreme had changed main jets, the springs and set screws in the TRA. When we rode them, they were pretty close but I thought my sled held RPM a little more consistently. Read their site - they at least have the balls to say there's no perfect setup and the point of theirs is to make the sled turn the right RPM. You also ought to look at their real dyno numbers and compare the high horsepower RPM to the factory's. No wonder half the stuff doesn't run right - the factory doesn't even know where the power is. I guess that's a big dumb question for them to ask with the dyno - better to just ride a lot and figure it out. Why run the dyno and actually see where and how much power you have when you could just drag race sleds for days at a time to see where you're at. Some folks would be well served by reading Dynotech and actually understanding some of the basics that max performance occurs when you clutch for the RPM where the engine makes power. That's pretty hard to figure out even with a highly calbrated a** dyno.
The other problem with Lynn is that the sun rises and sets on Ski-Doo. If you want all the BRP smoke blown up yours, he's the guy to talk to. If you're convinced at SD is the only brand on earth, he'll certainly agree. If, however, you might actually want to consider your choices, the guys at Extreme have been really honest about how stuff compares...go read the blog on their site, look at the weights and horsepower. When I asked about a Summit 1000, they told me it was 80 pounds heavier, Lynn said it was the most awesome thing ever. How long did that last?
To each their own but I haven't seen anybody walk on water yet.
Oh well, to each his own. All I know is that Felkers nor Xtreme can handle every DOO sold. So find someone you like and that does DOO's homework for them, and pull the rope
