mnstang
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I work on sprinters and have seen it all and then some.
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17 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:
I'm not that level of cool. A guy can dream though
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I put my AC riding jackets in the closet today. 16 of them.
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10 minutes ago, Deephaven said:
You can verify a 25 deg diff?
Speaking of too stupid. (as bad as to slow, dumbass).
ie, Arctic Cats stock calibration was way off with the stock belt. You do realize that is EXACTLY what they were saying. Are you trying to turn into Jimwit?
Try to keep up. Thunder products claimed all these huge gains with a different belt. They weren't on stock calibration. So all it proved was how far off they were the whole time. If any of it was true to start with..
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4 hours ago, Premium said:
That's not really true in my experience. While the "auto-tensioning" clutches that Cat uses may likely mask improper belt length better than other setups, a belt that is too long will absolutely crush top speed because the primary could be full shift, but the secondary is not (and cannot). Attempting to get the secondary to fully shift in that scenario would just create belt slip, heat, and further loss of top speed.
Sure that would be the one scenario I suppose. I was more talking about acceleration I forgot this forum is 600cc lake racers.
You're never going to get a secondary to shift more if the primary is done. Any tuner would know if their primary is fully shifted.
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41 minutes ago, p51mstg said:
That's a great testimonial. The way he posted on Facebook, it sounded too good to be true. And, I keep looking at other clutch people, like BDX and Speedwerx, and they've got nothing about belt size. I just wasn't sure what to believe. However, the way you've explained it, I think there's definitely merit the belt. Since I don't have a spare for my Catalyst, I'd be willing to give it a try next season.
Changes in belt length will change the entire calibration because the secondary and primary clutches will be in different points of their shift, relative to each other.
So if someone thinks there is a magic belt length that made their machine so much better, all it proves is their calibration was way off with the other belt. That's it.
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18 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:
ok, in what hypothetical scenario are they putting snow back into the track or skid?
if you're riding on snow what benefit will be gained?
if you're riding on hard pack or ice what benefit will be gained?
in either scenario... no scratchers
The fact that they're designed to deflect snow from leaving the tunnel and hitting the rider or getting on the back of the machine. You can't think of a world where any of that deflected snow ends up back in the tunnel, not one single flake? Really? That's your hard stance?
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31 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:
so you rode it without the flares and took a reading. then installed the flares and took another reading. was this on the same day, same trail and within an hour or so?
see, I actually did all that at the same time I installed the flares and scratchers with the torsion springs set back on two. no scratchers same operating temp with the flares, scratchers down and the temp dropped an average of 8-12 degrees on the same two miles of groomed snow covered trail along the highway Q ditch. it's the same trail I test clutch setups on close to the shop as I can try a setup, come back, change and test again within 15 minutes.
is that even similar to the extent of product validation you did? I very much doubt it as you're a simpleton.
idk how many times you've proven yourself the fool here or every other sled site but I'm pretty sure @krom has a running tab for them so maybe he'll add this tunnel flare belief malarkey to the list.
Just because they didn't work for you on that one day in those specific conditions does not mean they don't work in any conditions. You have a long ways to go in the testing world
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53 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:
Slide rails and double wishbone suspension. Wonder where they came up with that...............................
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Just think if AK sourpuss lived by the ocean. Every time the tide would come in it's ahhhhh waterworld we are all going to die!! And every time itd go out he'd be moving his tent shanty further out on the beach.
Not much of a big picture guy. Just a sad reactionary sheep 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 so sad 😿 sadcat440
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1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:
Confidence grows on El Niño ending, quickly replaced with La Niña
There are several signs the current El Niño ocean condition is fading. Now the forecast confidence is also increasing that the ocean temperatures are going to cool and eventually turn into a La Niña.
El Niño is when the equatorial Pacific Ocean water becomes warmer than the long-term average. We have been in El Niño since last year. The strong El Niño is likely one of the reasons we’ve just had the warmest winter on record in Michigan. Of course we have the warming globe as an additional reason for a warm winter.
The El Niño experts at NOAA are now finding much colder water just below the water surface at the Equator. They say this colder water is working its way to the surface and will soon replace the warm El Niño waters.
Below is the chance of El Niño, neutral conditions and La Niña from now to October, November and December. Notice by June, July, August there is a 63 percent chance of La Niña taking over. By this fall there is an 83 percent chance of a La Niña.
Why does the switch from El Niño to La Niña matter? Remember this large area of water with either warm or cold temperatures influences the upper-air flow around the northern Hemisphere. The effects are mostly felt in winter. The El Niño is notorious for mild winters in the Great Lakes. La Niña is somewhat opposite in that it can help a colder than normal winter form.
it is sorta funny how this turned into a climate change/global warming thread, I almost considered getting an electric snowmobile to save the planet.
Huh! It's almost like there's ebbs and flows and things balance out in the end. Like the winter before when we set snowfall records or the fact that our 5 year average, including this winter, is still above historical average. Huh!
Huh!
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1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:
the biggest problem this winter from my pov was the complete lack of moisture in the atmosphere to actually create snow or rain. it was and still is dry as a popcorn fart here, which doesn't bode well for spring melt, filling flowages and ground water tables.
El Nino...
maybe we need a drought thread next?
Last summer was a super bad drought also and it basically continued through the winter. These things happen. I think it was the 1930's where there was a ~10 year drought that was pretty brutal "the dust bowl". I can only imagine the bleeding heart propaganda we'd have to go through if we went on a ten year run like that today.
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28 minutes ago, Not greg b said:
Mike kolety said in the pod cast that sled and the Sno pro 500 was his favorites
I think he was just saying he liked them because they were good transition sleds
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If I had an opening in the garage I would've bought this a couple months back
https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item/939815204248222/?ref=search
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Summer mud riding in Alaska, AKA iron dog training
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Just now, ZR6000RR said:
There is more to it than knocking snow chunks off your back. Way over your head, but if you dig deep. Real Fucking Deep! More snow= more cooling. Not fairy dust. Use a brain cell, if one exists.
I'd agree. I don't doubt those flares can help. If they knock down any snow at all, some of that will end up staying in tunnel or hitting the track as it falls. Just like everyone so mystified that the catalyst cools better but look at the snowflap, different design to catch more snow. The issue all along was lack of snow on the exchangers so anything that would increase that will help cooling.
My high country on the trail would throw a big rooster tail everywhere, it looked sweet. But it'd get hot because snow was going under the flap.
The smaller the track lug and smaller the rear bogie wheels will both help the track carry snow up into the tunnel instead of spitting it out back.
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If you guys want to fix your cooling issues cut a frickin hole in your hoods and put some fins on your cylinders like real men
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1 minute ago, Crnr2Crnr said:
that's before global warming
I heard global warming is ending on Thursday
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Tucker actually started racing on Puma 340's as he wasn't yet man enough to handle the Jag. But, look at him.. us, now
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What's proven is the climate on Earth has never stayed the same. Literally always changing. The only thing alarming would be if the climate stopped changing.
But, sheep will be sheep 🐑
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1 hour ago, Sled_Hed said:
Race department should feel ashamed by being spanked by the trail department.
#oldguard
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24 minutes ago, Sled_Hed said:
No, I actually can't believe you're throwing shade to the g.d. F7 and it's stronger brother the cF7
8 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:not a race department sled
you is
you sold your SP and I haven't seen a pm with a Z440 you bought recently... so there's that.
race department sleds wins belongs to me ATM.... as I'm also counting half of an RXC engine I paid for.
and: 
The sp500 was a consumer sled!
And!
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1 minute ago, Sled_Hed said:
You guys seem to be forgetting the fastest sled on the pond...
Urban Overlanders - The Ricers of Today
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That would be false information.