Ijust purchased my 5th ac. it's the 700 diesel. i am extremely dissapointed in performance. any body know how to get more power? are there aftermarket turbos or can the injector pump be turned up? HELP!

 

You didnt read up on it enough first. You should have asked, alot of info on these forums regarding AC atvs. The deisel is basically a farm machine, lots of low speed pulling power. No racing, or wheelies, or high speed with that one.

 

yup v2 said it best. the magazines compare it to an underpowered 400. they dont even compare it to a 700 when putting it against the competition. they put it up against a honda 350. i dont listen much to magazines but the 700 is a slow pulling machine. and i dont think theres much for mods for it.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: arctic dude

Ijust purchased my 5th ac. it's the 700 diesel. i am extremely dissapointed in performance. any body know how to get more power? are there aftermarket turbos or can the injector pump be turned up? HELP!</end quote></div>



I'm not an AC guy but I did hear that they have a chip for them!

 

Yep these guys are pretty much right, but for what they are, A work machine, they seem to do that job just fine. But like everybody else said, don't expect to go racing, but it would be sweet if they had some aftermarket parts for it to make it faster.

 

OK so they're slow off the mark but nobody buys a diesel for speed. I love my 700diesel. I've puuled a two and a half ton tree trunk around with it no problems and it does everything I want it to on my farm. I recently started using it for a bit of trail riding and I find it just keeps going whatever you throw at it.

Mine has an over optimistic speedometer which reads 50mph on the flat tarmac but I've checked it with my sat nav and it's actually 45mph which is more than enough for the trails. Plus after a full day of riding in which we covered over 80 miles of trails I still had half a tank of fuel left.

It's difficult to find out what the actual power output is from the Arctic Cat web site but as it is re branded and sold as a Massey Ferguson you can find on their site that it only puts out 18hp but the important thing is that it gives 39nm of torque and that's at only 2250rpm.

It's a great machine and even better when you run it on bio fuel.