fortune46x

9 minutes ago, AK440 said:

Where’s your link? You do know how to post a link… don’t you? 

is there a podcast for that?

2 hours ago, AK440 said:

NASA is a fake website? 

I ride from November to April in AK. 

snocross is a fake website?

15 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

What tonnage presses are you running?

Asking for a company that would be a bad customer and not pay for 120 days.

I've got a 390 dedicated to one customer , and a 400 with a 54oz barrel that is for odds and ends. I've run out of realestate in the existing footprint so next on the list is a expansion to add more warehousing and production.

12 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

maybe if you get off your high horse for a weekend I'll take you next year and have notGreg introduce you to Booger @fortune46x

 

its on my list of races, every year I say this will be the year and nope.

Just now, Not greg b said:

They weren’t sold out when I bought mine during the “you anit getting one” period last summer 

You dad bought one you mean. 

5 minutes ago, AK440 said:

It’s far cheaper than fucking around making little changes with dies. 
 

Typical.  You keep arguing and you’ve not even listened to the podcast!
 

No one cares what some drunk rando spectator thinks he saw in a parking lot. Were you volunteering in the sign up booth? Oh, I know, you pumped the shitters and used your own formula of turds per green room to estimate entries?  

I know more about tooling and manufacturing than you do about predicting cold, snowy winters with your acorns. 
 

You're right , I wouldn't know anything about it , owning a Tool and die shop and injection molding company that's ISO9001:2015 certified that produces and ships parts globally makes me completely clueless on it.  Do they have a podcast where I can learn all of it ?

What about a podcast where I can learn how to be a drunken spectator ? because working for the series clearly doesn't give me any credibility..

21 minutes ago, AK440 said:

Poor dumb Krom, backed into a corner with facts he resorts to making up statements about my post (which he conveniently quoted).  Little Kromy, show the forum where I stated it was “impossible to modify” a die?  

None of that is as cheap to do as changing a jig to weld a tube steel bulkhead like Cat can do with the Cataylist. 
 

I can tell you didn’t bother to listen to the Carbide Podcast about entries. 

I can tell you that a Jig change is not as cheap as you perceive it to be and if you are adding a rib , or welding up a tool and machining it down for a revision - it is far less expensive then changing a jig - then it goes through the same papp process to be verified for production regardless if its a jig or a casting tool.

I haven't listened to it yet , but I was at the event and have been to every snocross event for the last 7+ years. there was two overflow lots for pits and that has never happened in my time going to Duluth , @Ziemann and @Zambroski can chime in to the glory days of snocross and if it happened then.

10 hours ago, AK440 said:

OMG! This is why your just a parts boy and nothing more. Who knew that EVERY. SINGLE. CHANGE. Required on a Polaris only involves removing metal from a die, not adding material. You do realize a CNC machine doesn’t add material… right? You do realize that adding material to a die isn’t practical or cost effective and that dies are made out of specific metals to withstand high pressures and temperatures? 
 

Go back to your minimum wage parts counter job and quit trying to impress people with your engineer cosplay.  

changing inserts to a mud set (master unit die) or a mold base is a common occurrence and is the most cost effective way to make revisions - you remove a cavity/core and replace with another - its a fraction of what a total tool build is and is the most common practice in the industry. Most molding/casting facilities use the same base and change inserts for various tools.

Did you hear this on a podcast too?

3 hours ago, AK440 said:

Listen to the podcast and argue with the facts they presented. The numbers are inflated and you fell for them just like Crn2Crn. 

@bontz @deephaven 

Wait. There’s numbers on a website that’s being denied ? 

Friday night national entries:

Pro 12

Pro lite 28

+30 19

womens 16

jr 14-15 28

200 68

total : 171

now they ran 3 days with the exception of the 200 class +30 and junior 14-15 - meaning they entered every day of the weekend. (sunday they had other classes that didnt run Friday that ran sunday)

Regional shootout classes : 18 classes total , 30 racers invited from each each class ran,  540 racers alone that are regional racers (some of which can run national classes on Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Combined for Friday was a potential of 1053 entries,

There were 1038 entries total for the weekend spanning Friday - Sunday. 

Math is hard I understand - these numbers came right from the results of Friday Heat 1 for all national classes on snocross.com and the schedule for the regional shootout that can be found at :https://snocross.com/wp-content/uploads/2023-2024_ACS_EVENT_SCHEDULE_09_DULUTH_300PPI-2.pdf

How many entries for the entire iron dog were there? 25 teams 50 racers total.

The data is in front of you , unless that's only relevant when talking about climate change?

There were no left overs. 

9 hours ago, Not greg b said:

My mom bought me an 858 M today. My dad said he has an Easter grift for me on Sunday. 

28 minutes ago, ZR6000RR said:

Do me a favor and punch that useless idiot in the throat for me. My ice bridge formed in less than 5 miles because I forgot to lift them up in about 5-6 inches of fresh snow. Stopped. Put the scratchers up and knocked the snow out and went on my way, with just my flares to help cool the sled. The flares work really well in my case. 

do you have your american fighter shirt typing this so everyone knows how badass you are?

1 hour ago, Palu49 said:

I have 7 followers on Instagram if you need someone to sponsor 

lol fucking instagram

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

it's tunnel flares... right? 

hope can we get them in anodized billet to match the 20" bar risers. 

yup...

Haydays should be interesting... lol

1 minute ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Thanks..l don’t need a lake racer but I’d like a 600 that performs as it should.👌🏻

honestly I dont think anyone has suffecient data to say yes this works no it doesn't in the flat land. Conditions where so off compared to normal I wouldnt trust anyone that has a "fix" especially when the largest problem hasn't been addressed yet.

thats it my cattlass is getting one of these

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

Nope

We don't get details on Flo

you can kind of see them in the pics - the ones ran in ironwood started at the axle for the front shock and went almost to the rear axle

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

which piece(s)?

I looked at the arms in the parts catalog a few weeks ago... 

Edit:  Rear Arm 2704-320 and Rear Idler Arm 4704-136 are the same... but not the front arm or rails.  

Since last year it has ran the catalyst skid - they were bending rails and had to re-configure the shock setup - if you look at the pictures from earlier this year Dan had some huge braces on there.

On 3/15/2024 at 10:55 PM, ZR6000RR said:

It is fucking crazy! Cat did so well, on such an old, useless chassis. I expect Greg will interject. 

except its "old useless chassis" is using the catalyst skidframe..

19 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

what's the minimum build # ?

paging @fortune46x... 

watching the ice races this 'season'... it's not an efficient chassis, belt drive or not.

 

oh wait... there's magic gearing now according to Beetlejuice

 

 

not sure what minimum build is anymore. its changed so much with our economy in the shitter

Lake geneva 2012 - sleds didnt run up the hill just had a oval at the bottom of it.

31 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

ask @fortune46x how much are stuck into those things... it's astonishing. 

Knowing that sled in particular - that is a drop in the bucket and they were maintained indepth.

13 hours ago, mnstang said:

They listen to customers.  The catalyst itself is proof of that.  They don't entirely change a snowmobile based off one narcissistic guy whining at a show thing.

Yep they are tanking themselves, the #1 talked about snowmobile for 18 months.  You people have been saying this about cat forever, and yet here they are.

This site is the only place I hear people crying about clutching.  All 3 people.  I have yet to hear anyone say the seat is too soft.  I have seen numerous posts on FB from older guys complaining that the seat is too hard and hurts their butt.   But let me guess, you guys want them to make only the changes that you personally want.  All the snowmobile media has not said anything about clutching or the seat... In fact it's the exact opposite, they say the engine is awesome and it feels incredibly good for a 600.  Psst, that includes clutching.  They also say best seating position/ergos/rider triangle in the industry.  Psst this includes the SEAT.  You guys should get a life, if cat is so bad why do you own them or care about them?  Some people are just miserable AF and that is you guys.  Just live to bitch.

I have had a 22, 23 and a 24 rxc  and now I have the 23, 24 that I can ride back to back and I can tell you the 24 is slower than the 23 in bone stock trim.

Considering the best mechanics in the industry for cat are scratching their head over the wall problem and are resorting to racing procrosses should tell you alot.

10 hours ago, ZR6000RR said:

Fuck you are dumb! The seat is great. Perfect, or excuse me, almost perfect density. You are not sinking to the tank, but you have all the answers.  Maybe, they ignore you, because you are in the super minority? I'll hedge that bet.

near zero miles and you can tell someone who has more miles on that they're dumb and don't know what they are talking about.