A guy on Ebay wants to trade his 1997 Polaris sport 400 for my 2000 Blaster. I have a K&N Filter and FMF Torque reeds. He has turf tamer tires, a pipe/sil, and some other stuff. I would probobly sell it before long with my banshee to get a raptor [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]. I know the sport would be faster but which one could I sell for the most $? thanx!

 

A 97 Sport in nice shape will easialy fetch 3K[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

I don't know, my dealer told me that he would only give me $2000 for my '98 Sport (in great condition). He's a jack@$$ anyway, and he is the only dealer that I have asked.

Also, you may want to consider the fact that a Yamaha dealer will probably give you more for another Yamaha (and some won't even take Polaris). What I just said might not make sense so this is what I mean...Let's say both machines are worth $3000 (I'm making that number up of course)...I would think that a Yamaha dealer would give you closer to what the other Yamaha is worth, Maybe $2800 (making it up), where as the Yamaha dealer may only give you $2500 for the Polaris (another fake number). See what I mean.

All dealers are different so I guess you never know.

-Josh

 

Dealers seam to be less interested in trade ins then they used to be. But its true a Yamaha will generally be worth a little more when you do.
In your case, a new blaster is only a $3000 machine. The Kelly Blue Book trade in on a 2000 Blaster is $1890. At best, that is what you could expect for it on trade.
Its about the same for any couple year old machine. Drive it off the lot, and its worth 20%-30% less. NEW COSTS. Thats just life.
Sell it yourself in the paper and you'll end up with more money for it.
If you were going to keep the machine, seams to me a Sport with a pipe would be a lot more fun, but thats just my choice between those two.
Good luck with whatever you do.

 

I doubt I would Trade it in because I can get alot more out of it by selling it, but i would just make a down payment on it with the blaster/sport (whichever is worth more) and then pay the rest off when I sell the banshee. ttyl cya

 

Oh yeah, will it ride a good wheelie (my friends sport u have to come to a complete stop, hold the brake then nail the throttle and let the brake go to get the front wheels off of the ground, but it is stock)and how fast do you think the acceleration and top end will be compared to my friends sport. I dont know what kind of pipe it is. Thanx again ttyl cya

 

I don't know why you have to hold the brakes on your friends Sport to get it to wheelie. When mine was stock I could bring it up pretty easy. It has always been a great wheelie quad. Now I have yet to see exactly how far I can ride a wheelie because I run out of room in all of the places I try (my friends field, and my neighbors big lawn). I would say it has to be close to 100 yards no problem.

The secret to riding good wheelies on the sport is that you can't be intimidated by it's "scary" balance point. It really feels like you are going to go over backwards, but you just have to hold on and work the throttle. Before I actually found the balance point I could only ride a wheelie 10 yards or so.

Now to your other question about the piped sport vs. your buddies sport....obviously a properly modded Sport will beat an unmodded one. By how much? It depends on what pipe and silencer it's got. I can tell you that I have an RcR kit and it makes a big difference over stock. I have heard that HPD pipe/silencer are even better than that.

Contrary to what you may have been told, the Polaris sport is a great quad and can be modded to be extremely fast (72hp fast). Unfortunatly it's a bit underated, and people tend to laugh at you when they see you riding with other sport quads (well it's not quite that bad), but hey that makes it more appealing to me. A true sleeper for a moddest rider.

-Josh

 

When my Scrambler was stock, it would only do a small pop up from a dead stop if you just nailed it. After I installed my hotseat Generation II pipe kit, now it does full on power wheelies, and if you don't watch it, you'll end up on your ***, just from the throttle.
But with that all said, a Wheelie has almost nothing to do with a machine. Its all in the rider.
I have a friend that can ride a wheelie on his stock Sportsman, for as long as he wants. He has to do all the things you mentioned earlier, and also hop up, and then slam his big butt down on the back of the seat to get it up, (Winch and big bumper on front) but then its all cake from there.

 

Ok i just found out that it has an FMF pipe and silencer, a K&N filter and turf tamers. It also has about a 6 inch crack in the rear fender. What do u guys think? should I trade?

 

From my experiance with both i would jump on a deal like that. 400 2 strokes are great.