Woooooot! They're baaaaack!

[BadAftertaste]

http://www.snowest.com/snowmobile-news/display.cfm?ID=2553

Donavon Facey is back in the snowmobile biz.



Facey has leased a building in Northglenn, CO, where he has started Rocky Mountain Xtreme, which provides expert service, maintenance and modifications on most brands of snowmobiles, ATVs, UTVs and personal watercraft.



Rocky Mountain Xtreme will also sell powersports accessory items and Klim riding gear. RMX also operates an online store for Klim products at buyklim.com.



Until May, 2009, Facey owned Xtreme Performance Center, one of Colorado's largest and most respected powersports dealerships. With Rocky Mountain Xtreme, Facey will continue to focus on doing what made Xtreme unique: high altitude setups for ATVs and snowmobiles, high altitude specific mod packages for snowmobiles and great customer service.



Here are some of the services available at Rocky Mountain Xtreme:

- Routine maintenance

- RMX High Altitude mod packages

- Accessory installation

- Engine rebuilding including cylinder boring, honing, etc.

- Electrical diagnosis and repair

- High altitude calibration

- Clutch rebuilding

- Turbo kit installation

- Snowmobile modifications (installation of lightweight suspension components, etc.)


For more information, contact Facey at Rocky Mountain Xtreme, 10789 Irma Drive,
Northglenn, CO 80233 or (303) 654-0867, which rings both the office and his cell. The website is: www.rmxtreme.com.

 

[AndrettiDog]

Are the RMK kits ready for the Pro RMK yet?

 

[tudizzle]

I would bet he is on them already


This is great news for snowmobiling in Colorado!

Just heard a rumor that we lost the doo dealership in the springs this year.

 

[sledskiing]

Good Luck DFacey!

 

[Scott]

I bought some Holz lightweight polaris spindles from Donovan back on 2002.
He was a great guy to buy from.

 

[SledsWest]

awesome! good to see they're closer to the metro area this time.

 

[dfacey]

Thanks

Thanks for the kind words. Obviously this new venture is quite a bit different in size and scope from the last one but it is nice to still be involved in the snowmobile business. I honestly didn't think this was where we were headed when the stores closed. However, enough people have expressed interest in service, mod work, Klim and accessory sales that they convinced us that we should set up a new store/shop. This business feels a lot like the Dacono store did in '95 when we started and I'm enjoying getting to talk to every customer and be involved with every unit that comes in the shop. By the time we had 50 employees, my job was really to make sure that everybody else was doing their job. For me, that was never as enjoyable as building sleds, running the dyno, or just going riding (duh). Luckily Mindy did a tremendous amount of that so I could still do the "fun" stuff but time was still at a premium and it put a lot of stress on her. Life is definitely much less stressful now and I certainly don't miss the politics of dealing with all the OEMs.

Anyway, as far as 800 RMX kits for the Pro RMK goes, that project is at the top of my to do list this winter. There are some interesting questions about how well what we know about the '08-'10 engine will translate to the new engine. I'm curious to see what kind of fuel maps and timing curves Polaris gave us to work with, as well as what kind of power level the sled starts with in comparison to the earlier engines. Then there are also the more mundane questions about packaging, pipe temps, etc. We're planning to get started on the dyno work in November but some of that will be driven by how soon we can get lightweight cans to test with the kit. I always like to make sure the kits will work well with the stock can and lighter alternatives. The dyno numbers are important but we'll also have to get some miles on and make sure that the driveability and real world power delivery is as expected. It should be an interesting winter...let's hope we can get some good snow early for testing so we can get the kits tested and start building them as soon as possible. I know a lot of Pro buyers who are accustomed to how their Dragons ran with the RMX kits and would like to get back to those power levels with the lighter chassis (me included).

Thanks again,
Donavon

 

[tudizzle]

You stictly polaris now or are you still working on Doo's too.



.......welcome back!

 

[dfacey]

I would say that the snowmobile work has been about 50/50 Polaris/Ski-Doo with an occasional Cat or Yamaha thrown in. I don't have any issue working on any of them, although I didn't end up with as many of the special tools for Cat or Yamaha as I had in the R&D/race stuff for Polaris and Ski-Doo.

On the RMX kits, it seems like the Polaris engineers have traditionally left more crumbs under the table than their Rotax counterparts. We have RMX kits for the 800 Summits but the horsepower per dollar ratio hasn't typically been as good as on the RMKs. For a long time it seemed the Polaris riders were more willing to do engine mods, although a lot of that changed when the Rev was introduced and a lot of guys switched.

The 800 Pro RMX kit is tops on the to do list for a couple reasons. First, Polaris sold a lot of those sleds. If there's another 12 altitude horsepower available for less than $1000, I think we'll sell quite a few RMX kits. I have a couple good friends with Etec 800s on the way and I'm hoping we'll get one of them on the dyno but I would be shocked if there's anywhere near that kind of power available for that dollar figure. I am interested to see how the turbo kits work. The Doo crowd has certainly waited long enough to get a two stroke sled that's well suited for a hair dryer. The 4Tec 1200 turbos work well but for me, that's still a big and relatively heavy sled to herd around all day.

Thanks,
Donavon