I'll trade in my 650 LE when the H1 is fuel injected or POL comes out with a 800 EFI sportsman. I've put a lot of money into my 650 so I wouldn't let go of it easilly. But the second year of a fuel injected HEMI might be able to pry the twin from my hands. Is anybody sure that the HEMI isn't injected now?

Rich.

 

To Answer a few of your questions, first the 2005 Artic Cat 650 hemi is not scheduled to be fuel injected. As I understand it, Artic Cats first fuel injected ATV will be the 500. The e-mail address on the new 2005 is ARTIC CAT 650 HEMI.

 

Hey Andy,

I agree with you about the v-twin being a better engine, but I think
the H1 will have a more durable tranny. I sure hope Cat doesn't have
any major problems with this new engine.(This better not be a flop like
1999 Powder Special snowmobiles). What are your thoughts?

 

well i am gonna beat the living bajesus out of mine for the full 2 years only had mine for maybe 2 months so far but i figure by the time warranty is up if there is any bugs with the hemi they should have them sorted out but if they don't have the bottom end or mid range like my v-twin does i am going back to the v-twin like the smoothness of the motor

 

If AC uses their own transmission, I would give it the nod too. Kawasaki took forever and a day to figure out engine breaking. Then another year or so to make it standard rather than a dealer installed option.

 

What was the big flop with the Powder Special? I own a 98 and it has been awesome. Last year alone I put on over 1000 miles on my machine and the only thing I had to do to it was replace a $20 part on the steering post.

Back to the origional question... I would think the H1 would be much more of a machine. It would be very embarrasing if they came out with their own engine and it wasn't as good as the older one. I am also sure that Suzuki is helping with it in some way, remember they own 25% of Arctic Cat. I know they wouldn't let Cat build a crappy engine and loose a ton of money.

 

I am still waiting for Arctic Cat to come out with a 650 or the new H1 in a manual transmission. EFI would be nice too as long as the bugs are worked out, but as long as they don't some in a manual transmission I will just we looking at them. I might add a 500i manual to my list of toys but nothing larger...yet.

 

I'm really suprised that AC didn't make the H1 a 700 or better. It seems to me if you want to beat the big guys you first need to make everyone notice you first. How better than a 750-800cc HEMI w/EFI. Oh well we all can dream, cant we?

Riich.

 

Oh hands down, if they dropped a manual transmission in one, I'd be short one Grizzly.

 

[quote]
Originally posted by: Catterman
What was the big flop with the Powder Special? I own a 98 and it has been awesome. Last year alone I put on over 1000 miles on my machine and the only thing I had to do to it was replace a $20 part on the steering post.

Back to the origional question... I would think the H1 would be much more of a machine. It would be very embarrasing if they came out with their own engine and it wasn't as good as the older one. I am also sure that Suzuki is helping with it in some way, remember they own 25% of Arctic Cat. I know they wouldn't let Cat build a crappy engine and loose a ton of money.[/q

Here is what I should have said " This better not be a flop like the 1999 Powder Special 700 snowmobile"
We have seen nothing but problems with these machines and the deep snow performance is horrible.