Lower Mounting Holes for the rear suspension

[Combs19]

I'm putting the M7 rear suspension drop brackets on my 06 Crossfire 144". With this mod do you need to drill out the lower holes in the front mounting spot for the rear suspension? If you do is there advantage to this or a disadvantage? I was thinking it would keep the rear suspension geometry correct with the M7 drop brackets on the back and the Crossfire's wider and taller front suspension. Any input would help. Thanks

 

[Combs19]

Here is a pic of what I'm talking about. The upper hole in the pic is the shock front bolt mounting hole for the rear suspension and the lower one it the one that I drilled out. Don't know witch one is the best to use with my setup. I was also think the lower hole may make the sled trench more.

 

[ewachk]

If you use the bottom bolt hole on the tunnel this wil take a little more weight off your front end. If you want to pick your skis up a bit leave it on the lower setting.

 

[Bearcat]

If you are going to use CF stock front skid shock you need to remove the blocker inside the shock. It will give more travel. Better way is to get Firecat front skid reservoir shock as it's even longer than unblocked stock shock. With Fcat shock you can use stock mounting hole in the tunnel but you still get weight off from front. So you get longer travel in the front and still get front end high.

Below is a pic of front skid shocks. Most up is stock CF 7 SP -06 shock without blocker inside (28.5cm), middle is Firecat reservoir shock (29.5cm) and lowest is WP 46mm wide shock for Firecat (30.5cm). Stock blocked CF shock will be half inch shorter than the shortest shock in the picture (about 27.2cm?).

If you are using M cat rear suspension brackets and CF suspension - it won't fit. M cat brackets needs wider (zr wide) rear arm.

 

[Combs19]

If you use the bottom bolt hole on the tunnel this wil take a little more weight off your front end. If you want to pick your skis up a bit leave it on the lower setting.

Thanks for the info. Thanks what I was looking for SKI LIFT.

 

[Combs19]

If you are going to use CF stock front skid shock you need to remove the blocker inside the shock. It will give more travel. Better way is to get Firecat front skid reservoir shock as it's even longer than unblocked stock shock. With Fcat shock you can use stock mounting hole in the tunnel but you still get weight off from front. So you get longer travel in the front and still get front end high.

Below is a pic of front skid shocks. Most up is stock CF 7 SP -06 shock without blocker inside (28.5cm), middle is Firecat reservoir shock (29.5cm) and lowest is WP 46mm wide shock for Firecat (30.5cm). Stock blocked CF shock will be half inch shorter than the shortest shock in the picture (about 27.2cm?).

If you are using M cat rear suspension brackets and CF suspension - it won't fit. M cat brackets needs wider (zr wide) rear arm.

Thanks for the info on the shocks, but just go my stock rebuilt so I think I'll keep them the way they are. As far as the CF suspension not fitting with the M drop brackets I figured that one out the hard way and had to put a rear suspension scissor arm out of a M7 in it to make it work.


Anyone know if this will make it trench more when your in the powder?

 

[polarisfornow]

i was wondering about this as well. I did something a little different but still have a similar issue. I put 153 rails on my xfire skid. to get the rails and skid to match up I had to put on a front suspension arm off of a m sled as the front of the m rails and xfire rails mount differently. my next issue was my rails now hit the extrovert drivers. so I decided to move the skid back and down to the other set of holes. since i already had a ve tunnel extension i just drilled some new holes to take the place of the drop brackets.

Haven't had this setup on snow yet but does anyone have any ideas? Anyone done anything similar?

BTW not trying to highjack your thread but it seems like we have similar questions.