I got a 500HO 40mm carb on my 700 plus a hot cams long duration cam and its awsome.

 

Give these guys a call on the HO cam Web Cam Inc. Their specs for their Ho cam for the 500 motor are the same as Aaens specs.

 

I like the price on that for only $158! But it doesn't list the 96 sportsman... wonder why.

 

ok gang... here's what I've finally decided to do!

I bought that engine from ebay for $700. It is a 2002 500 HO with about 200 miles on it. They messed it up drilling an exhaust stud out, but I found a head on ebay for $50. I'm sending both the engine and new head to Four Stroke Tech to let them do a stroker kit with 11:1 custom piston and set the valves up in the new head correctly. It's gunna cost me about $1035 with the work and everything (plus shipping of course and not including inital cost of the engine). I have a 40mm HO CV carb on the way, and I'm still debating whether or not to have them throw in a long duration cam and do some port/flow work. This would add an additional $250 for their cam and valve springs.

The biggest thing I want to make sure is that I'm not building an engine that'll be more race oriented (all top end) then trail oriented. I might as well have him do the cam/port/flow if it's not going to ruin all my low end torque. I'm not at all worried about top speed. I'm mostly doing mountain trails like I said before, so that's why I wanted to make sure I'm not killing it by doing to extra duration on the cam. He did say not to worry, as the 600 stroker is a torque monster, so I'm not going to be torqueless. I just want to make sure I'm retaining my trailability... especially for tighter rock crawling.

Any advice?

 

FST retains the stock clutching. Mickey explained why and it leads me to believe you will not have a race oriented motor. I would like to know what kind of turn around he told you to expect as well as what it actually ends up being. I would really like to know how much better it turns out to be. If your going to do the cam and they're doing the work I would consider the long duration cam.

 

He quoted me about a month turn around time. I still have the other engine working fine, so it doesn't kill me [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img].