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Originally posted by: MACHZMISSLE
yea i am actually gonna buy one...i have an Firecat F7 EFI that has some mods that my cousin did for me, like a pipe and some other thing, and i've had it up to 134...but i heard nothin beats a thundercat so i found a 96 that i can get for 3000, in about 2 weeks i'm gonna get it

Holy Christ are you kidding me??? you better get a real radar on that cause even modded out that thing will not hit 125.[/q


no i'm not, your misinformed, a stock F7 EFI will easially do 120...my brother has a bone stock F5 that does 117

 

Started out as a T-cat 900....went to a 1000cc counter-balanced triple. Same bottom end as a ZRT 800 triple. I believe the last year for them was 2001. Very fast and easy to bump the horses up over 200. Biggest problem was the weight. Heavy sled. I ride mountains so the T-cat was always a heavy pig to be digging out all day. The lake racer, short track guys love em.

 

I have pics of the Skidoo Mach Z 1000

 

Machzmissle, I guess I should have been more precise in how I said that, i ment it will beat the Tcat, not necessarily in a drag race I am talking about climbing, and as for being the dumbest thing you have heard in a while, take a look at what you said, how can you say that the 1000 doo will kill the 900 when the doo was just released and there is probably not even one out on the snow yet?? I am not trying to start any kind of brand bashing here but think before you speak.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Sorry doober,
But the 1000cc Bombardier Revs have been out in the trails here for over two weeks now. And so far, it is very positive. There were drag races yesterday in my town and in the stock class it was the fastest.

 

machzmissle, it is common for a stock f7 to hit 120 mph. 03's are a little faster then the 04's. as for the f-5 hitting 117, that i do not believe.

 

look at any big drag races results...the stock F5s in the 1000ft drag are averaging 112mph...i had mine full on for over a mile and the digital speedometer said 117...i spose it could be off but when i was doing radar runs i was fairly close everytime to what the gun said, maybe off by a mph or two, but all i'm sayin is i saw 117 in the speedometer, i'm not saying i'm 100% sure it was right

 

Littleboy, thanks for the info I didnt think they were actually released yet, I stand corrected.

 

American Snowmobiler Magazine,,,Feb 2004,,,14th Annual Shoot-out, these are the stock results:

1320 feet

F6-92.04mph in 12.89 sec
F7-92.74mph in 12.46 sec
ZR 900-93.68 in 12.37 sec

If the F5 was faster I'm pretty sure it would be in the drag race, but they didn't bother testing the 500 class.These are REAL world results and I did this to give people that might not know better an idea of what a sled really does.

By the way, these are very good numbers, as the Cats cleaned house for this comparison, winning every race in every class.That was Box stock and Dealer Prepped.

As far as the older Thundercat goes, it might not win a 1/4 mile drag against these new bad boys, but if your looking for the other side of a lake longer than 1/2 a mile or so,,,and you have the ***** to hold that Big 'ol tripple opened up,,,if anyone stays close enough to you that they can argue about who is fastest,,,you're both crazy!!!!

 

I bought a 2001 600 efi with 300 miles on it about a month ago and have never riden it. Do any of you know someone who might want to buy it.Also do you know if the 600 is fast.