In the demos section of BRP's web site, for the 500 outty, they claim a 22% advantage in power over the polaris 500efi ..

It must be a 22% advantage in applied (wheel) horsepower since from their specifications, they actually have less HP than the Polaris at the crank.

The polaris 500EFI I believe has either 36 or 38 crank horsepower, while the Outty 500 has just under 35.5hp.

I guess being nearly 100lbs lighter dry helps a bit. I wonder why polaris looses so much more power through the drive line??

 

the 500 outty has a claimed horse of 46-48hp, the 650 has claimed of 54-56 and the 800 is 62-65hp

 

Using the HP formula : ft-lbsxrpm/5252 = HP, and converting their metric torque 42Nm to ft. lbs .. calculation gives 35.4HP. Now, perhaps the difference here is that Can-Am is reporting at the wheels instead of at the crank? That would make more sense.

That's a lot of power out of a 500 ute though .. sure be nice to have that in my sportsman [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

One thing I will say good about the Grizz is the PS I have ridden them in the rocks and their is no feed back to the bars but the whole ATV is an big improvement over the 660 GRIZZ. They still don't have the power of the outty and if you are going to go in the snow,mud or sand power is your friend or at least it will get you wear you friends can't get to help unless they have outtys.

 

Give me a break. Everyone elses quad will go were yours will go. They just wont win in a drag race

 

canam, your prairie had problems following the griz? Hmmm interesting. The prairie 700 is a great machine. I have had mine in all sorts of conditions.

 

OMG roflmfao