yeah, that might be a good idea, wouldn't want him to get hurt or anything

 

Exactly what I was saying. I could easily eat up Banshees with pipes,reeds,etc with my Sport by several lengths. Now I do understand the fact of having enough *** to hold the front end down on takeoff. I ran a stock swingarm on my Polaris and it was a handful to take off on.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] A Banshee with just pipes and even reeds is not much of a run still. There are lots of hidden secret power tricks and porting is the biggest single gain that can be done on them,even more so than pipes. For a guy your size I bet the big V fits you really well. We had a guy running a V with the Alien duals at the 300ft dirt drags. It ran good ranging from 5.85-5.95 after running all night and getting it to leave hard, but again my wife's trail modded scrambler has run 5.8's on stock trail tires and the stock carb. I'm not downing the V by no means. I'm glad people like them. Just not my cup of tea I guess. Bubba

 

Bubba, I'd be willing to bet the guy you saw just put on the duals and didn't touch the clutch. 99% of the people who own a V-Force at this point don't know jack about tuning the CVT. The aftermarket dual systems are making power near 8000 RPM's and the stock spring probably shifts at a little over 6000, that's why you'll rarely see one that can run like it is capable of.

You probably have your sport down in the 400lb. range, while my SC400 is a 4x4 weighing in around 550 and making it a little harder to deal with piped Banshees.

 

The whole point of this posting was not to tear up the V-Force, it was to express the virtues of the polaris. The Scramblers are now 10 years old and can still run with a brand new state of the art machine. As far as mods are concerned, I agree that a modifyed 700 will most likely beat a machine that is 300cc's smaller with similiar mods but, you will spend alot more money on the 700 to get that performance. In a pure bang for your buck comparison it is my opinion that you can't beat the Polaris.

 

VANDAL, were you at the morris ATV drags augest 2???? the only reason I ask is there was a scrambler 400 there with almost the exact same mods you have listed.

 

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Originally posted by: KevinM
Bubba, I'd be willing to bet the guy you saw just put on the duals and didn't touch the clutch. 99% of the people who own a V-Force at this point don't know jack about tuning the CVT. The aftermarket dual systems are making power near 8000 RPM's and the stock spring probably shifts at a little over 6000, that's why you'll rarely see one that can run like it is capable of.


Kevin ......... what clutch changes do I need to use more of my power band ????

 

I've raced a couple with pipes and whatever,not even close.I must say it is a very nice bike and i'm sure in time they will get alot faster.Just my 2 cents.