My buddy purchased his razor about 2 months ago. He read all the blogs, articles and did his research and the polaris is what he wanted. Even though all of our friends have modified Rhinos. My Rhino is fully modified with a 773 stroker motor and all the bells and whistles to go with that. It is fast, quick, and extremely difficult for modified quads to keep up with on certain terrain. His polaris had just got a new fuel programmer, modified exhaust, some engine work and a huge bill from the shop. Now he wanted to race all of us modified rhinos. My Rhino runs 71 mph at sea level and gets there FAST. Nevertheless I let him try. At the dunes he got smoked, on the trails at Hungry Valley (high attitude) he got dusted, and on the streets around the house he got last. The bottom line is the polaris is a good side by side and stock to stock it is better than the Rhino. But stock is for farmers and old ladies. The Rhino motor is solid and is perfect for building a second to none side by side. The accessory market is huge and the advances made with the yamaha is second to none. The razor will never catch the Rhino in any of the important categories; Performance, speed, suspension systems, toughness, and reliablity.

 

I'll bet the "Ka-ching" sound the cash register made when it opened up for that 773 stroker motor was pretty loud, wasn't it.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]. Sure would be nice though.

That is the one thing a Rhino really needs, ... over twice as much horsepower. And you are right about the Razr never being able to match the toughness and reliability of a Rhino. Aftermarket support for the Razr is building, but I would be very surprised if it ever grows to within 20% of what is available for Rhino's right now.

DV

 

its just like polaris, trying to out do other companies and claim they r the fastest, my biggest laugh came from one of the newer issuse of atv action magazine when polaris claimed their outlaw 525 as the fastest quad to ever throw a roost. atv action proved them wrong with the raptor 700, (nevermind quadzilla, the faastest quad ever, ever, ever!!! and the list could go on). sorry to get off topic. anyways, i got a rhino with cdi, pipe, clutch, and airintake, and a rzr 1.5 lenths behind me at 40mph!! rhino goes 40 stock for a reason, maybe you got kids that want to ride, whatever. my rhino screams with 800 bucks over stock, aftermarket is thru the roof, and its all metric wich makes it easy to work on. im not the biggest yamaha fan, but they do make some very nice machines.

 

OK, maybe I am misunderstanding something here... but it sounds like your proud that your "highly modified" rhino with a different performance motor beat a slightly modified RZR which does 70 STOCK! I have read articles about professional racers that have over thirty thousand $$'s in their rhino's to get it to do 70 mph.

I'll take the RZR please.... :-)

Chris

 

It's a story that I thought I would only mention to friends but now that I see it is for sure a public user. I was at Comp. Hill at Oceano Dunes CA. a couple of weeks ago at about 10:30 pm and was watching all the quads, rails, rhinos and vehicles race up the hill. Exluding the rails there was a utv that everyone was trying to beet up comp. hill." And it was going up in reverse". One of the sandrail owners kept asking his buddy, with a full blown jumper Rhino, if he had it in the right gear and he kept replying he did. Go figure, it was an RZR that kept winning. That 800cc motor is looking real nice, wonder what will it do if you modify it?

 

Uncrate it and ride.

We're already paying over 10 grand for a glorified golf cart...please don't ask me to pay a dime more than I immediately had to fork over in the fall of '03 (minimum) with the black box and pulley.
I recently took the Rzr at a decent clip (bone stock) down the same whooped/washed out railroad grade that I had to somewhat nervously approach years ago with the Rhino...a day that I was woke up more than once testing it out.(beyond a certain speed; in and out of the shade; it can get difficult to judge the line that you should take...and suddenly, "hang on"...you'd better slow 'er down).

The Rzr difference was truly night and day on that 100 year old combination rock, sand and dirt straightaway...it was honestly the single best time that I had off-road (at speed) in my life...and I just felt much more in control with the CG so drastically lower.(not to mention the cart obviously tuned so much nicer; with the swaybars and rear-cant suspension smoothing everything out and building confidence quickly).

If you've got to go 80 mph in a golf cart...whatever floats your boat.

Yet if most folks would look at their speedometer when they're having the most fun?...I would say that it's at approximately the speed of where a Rhino's slightly cushier 'slow' ride falls off...and the "gosh, I've never done this before" Rzr 'full throttle' experience just about begins.

 

All you have to do is remove the spacer in the clutch, and buy a programmer to remove the rev limiter and it will do 65 mph with no other mods needed

 

I was wondering if you could tell me more about this spacer , if it is for the prowler ,thanks

 

No, I was talking about the rzr. There is a spacer in the clutch that limits it to 55 mphhere Read about the speed mod

 

I have a Prowler 06 ,and I have a great time time with it . over 2000 miles now