Why isn't someone making a series of aftermarket pros?!
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Jaynelson
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You don't have to do anything for a stock pro to be right on a stock m8...nothing at all. If a clutched pro with a $900 piston kit/head runs with a pro lite...I'd say that's more a sales pitch for the Polaris than the cat...
If you want hp in a pro for $4k over stock...add a silber turbo kit, skip the stuff no on really needs (seat, wrap, etc). You don't need the lightweight stuff to compete with the pro lite, as the pols already lighter to start with.
I agree stock to stock out of the box the Pro is better, but we are not comparing stock.
A ready to ride Lite 800 is $14750.
A Pro that is a good match takes clutching, motor work, and many days of tuning, wrenching to match it. AND about $14000 plus.
My point is I agree with Anziconda that a dealer/shop like Fastrax built sled like the Lite with the Pro would take it to level above the Lite.
A stock Pro is not even with a Stock 800 Lite and 900 lite that truly is 4K more would totally handle any stock 800 built.
A ready to ride Lite 800 is $14750.
A Pro that is a good match takes clutching, motor work, and many days of tuning, wrenching to match it. AND about $14000 plus.
My point is I agree with Anziconda that a dealer/shop like Fastrax built sled like the Lite with the Pro would take it to level above the Lite.
A stock Pro is not even with a Stock 800 Lite and 900 lite that truly is 4K more would totally handle any stock 800 built.
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rmscustom
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The way I read it is $15699 for a 14 pro lite 800 and $500 bdx cash. http://www.snowestonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=343899
So basically you get a stock powered 800 that is almost as light as a pro, a clutch kit, a loud can and a wrap for $4000+ more than a stock pro.
I'll put my stock pro (clutching included) against that any day unless you think meandering through meadows and taking some pokes at some wide open hill climbs is riding.
So basically you get a stock powered 800 that is almost as light as a pro, a clutch kit, a loud can and a wrap for $4000+ more than a stock pro.
I'll put my stock pro (clutching included) against that any day unless you think meandering through meadows and taking some pokes at some wide open hill climbs is riding.
I wouldn't take the BDX Pro Lite. I think it's cool for the AC guys but I don't like the chassis to begin with. I'll take the $2k after purchasing my 2013 Pro and add it to a Silber as Jaynelson suggested.
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anziconda
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I sure wasn't looking to start a pissing match!! I just asked a simple question. For me personally, if there was a said pro available with similar mods to the prolite, I probably would have bought one. To me this is a compliment to Polaris and the pro! Why you poo guys are so but hurt over a simple question is beyond me
Oh, and I'd love a cmx, but I don't have near enough pennies for one of those bad boys yet
Oh, and I'd love a cmx, but I don't have near enough pennies for one of those bad boys yet
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trackvs2wheels
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I sure wasn't looking to start a pissing match!! I just asked a simple question. For me personally, if there was a said pro available with similar mods to the prolite, I probably would have bought one. To me this is a compliment to Polaris and the pro! Why you poo guys are so but hurt over a simple question is beyond me
Oh, and I'd love a cmx, but I don't have near enough pennies for one of those bad boys yet
Got your point, along with many others. Thanks. It was a great question. Every brand has their share of basher boyz. It's a locker room thing.
I put over $3500 in my 11 pro just for evols, RKT kit, and clutching alone. Not to mention other stuff. Got three seasons total out of it, but it took two full seasons to assemble the final product. I can resell the evols, or move them to a 14. But I would be game for a proven 15k mod poo with a 1 yr warranty, setup for my elevations, etc., OOTB, so to speak. It takes time and tuning to put different kits together ourselves, and make them run well, and even if we self-install a single vendor 'package', they are never fully tested for all elevations, available fuels, snow conditions, riding styles. I do think the allure of a 4 yr warranty would be one of the challenges to any 15k poolite, even if many guys blow the warranty quals anyways, or have to wait half a season for parts and beg, borrow, or buy a backup sled. It's another mental thing. Good luck with the Prolite!
I think its hilarious to that all of us Pro owners think a new sled that needs pistons, head, fuel controller, and mine has a SLP pipe is basically stock.
I agree with REG2 in getting the Pro where I'm happy takes $3k to run the same as a STOCK 800 AC powered Pro Lite. The $17K Pro Lite is a 200HP 900HO.
I own a Pro, I get it, they have the best/lightest chassis (IMO) and a 800 that is tapped @150-160HP with some serious durability issues.
AC has heaviest chassis, with a 800 that makes same power stock as a mod pol 800. Plus for $2k a 925RKT makes 200HP.
You can spend $2-3K on Pro's engine or $2-3K lighting a Pro climb.
I'm just saying I agree that a shop built Pro that we don't have to tune would sell better then the Lite IMO.
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Jaynelson
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I sure wasn't looking to start a pissing match!! I just asked a simple question. For me personally, if there was a said pro available with similar mods to the prolite, I probably would have bought one. To me this is a compliment to Polaris and the pro! Why you poo guys are so but hurt over a simple question is beyond me
Oh, and I'd love a cmx, but I don't have near enough pennies for one of those bad boys yet
Sorry, I should clarify my posts as well....
I think a shop-built "package" of popular aftermarket accessories that work well together is a great idea. I think the Pro-lite is likely great in execution and in the final product (haven't ridden one, but that seems to be the consensus). Not sure "I" would buy one unless I could pick the accessories (paying for a different seat and lack of headlight, for example...no thanks), but I think it's a great idea and definitely see a market for it.
The only part I thought funny, was that the underpowered virtually stock Pol, still keeps up with the professionally dialed in, spec'd out Pro-lite. Which just goes to show that the Pol is not just hype with a crappy motor....it's still the real deal.
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Oregonsledder
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I have yet to find a hill in deep snow, that my bone stock PRO won't get my 200 pound butt to the top! What else is needed??
I've posted that a couple times and nobody seems to want to answer that. I'm starting to think that question is a good thread killer. LOL
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CDK
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I must politely disagree. Much respect to both of you, and I do understand where you're coming from, since 90% of the riders out there don't need more than 150 hp, as much as they need more experience. However, I know a couple very technical pulls in Revelstoke, and a couple of chutes I would love to try that definately require more than 150 hp. My good friends that ride 300 hp Nytros are pretty much wide open trying to get up them. My RK 858 just does not have a shot making it up, no matter how much $$$ I might throw into a coupling rear suspension. Sometimes track speed is the limiting factor. I feel like another 50 hp, and I could make a good go of it. This can be see pretty plainly too when I watched stock Pro with a 40 shot of nitrous go places I can't touch.
I realize I am referring to straight up climbing, and many people could not be bothered to attempt that sort of riding. I like the trees myself, but sometimes it's fun to point up a 6 foot wide crack in the rocks and go for broke. Situtations like these could warrant a more powerful Pro. Just food for thought....
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CDK
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I do agree the Pro is an excellent all-around sled, and it will go places many of us have no right in being. However, I still maintain my opinion that more power could only help what is already an excellent sled.
