It isn't constructed like a heat exchanger, it is more similar to a transmission cooler, or better yet, an air conditioning condenser. Thing is, it doesn't matter, it is right in harms way for any stump, chunk of ice, or rock. I plow over alders and willows all the time when I'm riding and I don't see that holding up for sh!t. I'd alos be concerned about its durability when busting through wind drifts and berms.
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The one that I looked at was a solid heat exchanger not a cooler like the one on the proto and the one on these photos, the solid heat exchanger is very strong, we used to scrape them across rocks when they were under the running boards with no issues so I would not be worried about a couple of willows and have no worries about a drift. I understand what you are thinking because the cooler in the photo would not stand up to anything but I am sure that is not what it will be like. I will do my best to find you the photo of the solid one.
If a belt wipes out the guard it is gonna get messy....real messy! Although that was not my first thought, I was more concerned about spilling.....no matter how hard you try, you are gonna make a slip up and spill oil. Hope it stays off the clutches!!!!!
A heat exchanger would definitely be far more durable. Only thing is, they're meant to work by having snow & snow dust thrown onto them. It doesn't look like much snow would hit it in the present location if you were riding in packed conditions. I'd be interesting in viewing some more photos.
i like the looks , noted a couple things
1. must be fast as they weren't concerned about tapping the rad in front
2. doors open from front to back like the old sucide doors on a old t-bird
3. didn't think they could make a silencer that big. gotta be about 80 lbs
4. with the rear arm assembly many possibilties from a longer track to 3 point hitch attachment for post hole auger, roto-tiller or snow rake. hehe
should look good in real.
1. must be fast as they weren't concerned about tapping the rad in front
2. doors open from front to back like the old sucide doors on a old t-bird
3. didn't think they could make a silencer that big. gotta be about 80 lbs
4. with the rear arm assembly many possibilties from a longer track to 3 point hitch attachment for post hole auger, roto-tiller or snow rake. hehe
should look good in real.
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Thanks for posting those photos, they are great, nice detail.
Word is those aren't side panels, they are composite wings made to look like side panels. I saw a car like that on MSN which is currently available to consumers, wings fold in and out, Polaris is just keeping up with the times.
Thanks for posting those photos, they are great, nice detail.
Word is those aren't side panels, they are composite wings made to look like side panels. I saw a car like that on MSN which is currently available to consumers, wings fold in and out, Polaris is just keeping up with the times.
Yamaha No Scoot on roids!!!!
i like it,now in a mountain chassis!!
Not impressed, but I did enjoy the pics
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hard to see because the picture is small but it looks solid. I guess time will tell and we should get to see one in person.
nelson you are corect. this sled is only gunna be available in a 600 cleanfire motor for 2010, and will never be used in a snocross sled, or the mountain chassie, next year the raw chassie will still be available and the race sled is still gunna be the iq. so i gess theres gunna be a few pissed off people that there is gunna be no 800.
i feel like everybody just needs to remember that this thing is a trail sled, its a flatland dominator.... no it'll never be offered in a long track. the front end plastic, hell ya but the back suspension probably not. people in my neck of the woods are going to love it but most of you out west, it doesn't effect you. Those of us that are fortunate enough to ride the mountains have been blessed by technology i think its time for the flatlanders to get an incredible sled.
I'd be surprised if it isn't used for snocross or the mountains. While I have my reservations about the new sled and won't be the first one in line to buy one, I am really curious to see how it rides and holds up. I'm surprised that they have not race tested the chassis before offering it to the public as a ditch banger. But thinking back, I remembered that Polaris came out with the '05 IQ chassis as a consumer sled first (Fusion & RMK 900) and released the IQ race sled that fall. Of course the IQ racer broke a-arms left and right until that got figured out.
Doo did the same thing with the ZX chassis. The sled was intro'd as a 600 consumer model and the race version followed that fall. Seems like the sleds that attain the greatest sucess are first tested on the track and then released as a consumer model, i.e. the TXL Indy, the Rev, and the ZR.
Polaris has always been pretty good about using one chassis for everything. I'd think this one has way too much money invested in tooling to produce the castings to just be used for flat land riding.
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If it's not being used for snocross, then why give it the motocross dirtbike style linkage? My favorite part of that sled is the big suitcase muffler. When will they pull their heads out of their a$$. cheers!
Im guessing they have the radiator in the front on the test sleds/proto type for testing on there dirt track they have at polaris.
Also I love that plastic when they put that plastic on a mountain sled im snow checking one
I wonder how much mod it would take to put that on a dragon now
nice quality pics. I like the look of everything except.....
mounting anything liquid on a belt guard is a baaaaad idea. beyond what can happen due to catostrophic failure......hows about leaks?
hingeing the plastic is cool, at the back....imagine if you break a fastener at speed......deploy the chutes!
mounting anything liquid on a belt guard is a baaaaad idea. beyond what can happen due to catostrophic failure......hows about leaks?
hingeing the plastic is cool, at the back....imagine if you break a fastener at speed......deploy the chutes!
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I hate to say it but with the epa restraints, the huge cans are here to stay...stock. The day is coming too and is here in many places where an mbrp or similar can is illegal due to noise and is being enforced. Not here, and not anytime hopefully, but in many areas it is that way. Many many forms of motorsports racing has decible tests as part of the prerace tech inspection. Fail a sound check, and you don't race. Like it or not, that is a fact of life as we know it and it will get more strict as time goes on. Tough to make a small lightweight can as quiet as the "suitcase". I am also guessing that the "suitcase" helps clean emmisions up better as well, whicch the sleds must meet or that can't roll out the door at the factories!!! The aftermarket intake systems that most of run would not meet the sound levels that the factory must meet. That is also the reason for the foam on the inside of most hoods. To cut down on sound levels when measured by the feds...Next will be the tracks. We have all heard a sled whistle down the road. A stocker that you don't hear the engine, but at 70-100mph track speed, the current 2"+ tracks are loud!!! Don't flame me, I'm saying that the track noise bothers me at all, but when it comes to feds doing a sound check, that is alot of noixe and is the next issue that I see them addressing. Yes, I think it is going too far, but that can be said for them trying to take way our 2 strokes too.
Yeh, I wouldn't put it past em on that track thing. However, cars are quiet, but tires roar on concrete at 80 mph.....nobody has tackled that one yet! Probably a long ways out and also probably a bit of a stretch!
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