SPARKX
Top end speed I can keep up with him, it's the bottom end that he walks away from me. The first 5 feet we are side by side but after that hew walks away from me. For me having a light and lower quad will not work. The reason being is that I hunt so weight equals traction when pulling out a 1500 lb moose and I need the ground clearance for the muskeg as well as climing over fallen trees to get to the downed animals to get them out. Where we ride for leisure is already chewed up so keeping on top of the skeg is pretty much non exsistant. I was really impressed with how the sport machine can go throught the skeg though. In the shorter run a raptor could keep up with us, put wew have a strip of skep about a 1/4 long where my buddy with the raptor does well for the first 100 feet , then he looses his momentum and we spend the rest of the way winching him out. Thanks for the advice, if my dealer had the mudlites at the time I think I would have went with them instead of the 589's. The 589's make the grizz look real mean. I am going to go with the HMF full exhaust system for the grizz. Have you heard if they are any good?

 

I understand what your saying, I pulled half a moose out last season on my little t-wolf through skeg and what not. The weight helps to a certain point, as long as there's a bottom which in most cases with Muskeg there isn't. Where you need ground clearance to keep from getting hung up, I don't have that problem cause I have a much shorter wheelbase which takes care of trees with ease. The only problem I have is that I don't have the weight to pull the moose, it just spins on the ground, not enough ground pressure, so I normally get a bud or two to sit down on the racks whenever I need traction. HMF makes good pipes, it should do great on the grizz, sounds like if you can't make it up with enough power, your gonna have to go into the clutching, that clutch kit you have might have spared up your mid acceleration to make up for the bigger tires and give you more bottom. If your not at the right shifting RPM for your engine at the right powerband it's like being improperly jetted. It's the same on a sled. So by putting on power mods, you have to find the sweet spot and possibly play with clutch weights and springs to find where it works best, for bottom, mid and top end. But once you got the power advantage, the bigger tires shouldn't slow you down much at all, with automatics, playing with the clutching is like playing with gearing, it'll make up for the difference if you have the power advantage to turn the bigger tires if you get it right. By the way, I'm in Fort McMurray, we got tons of skeg and swamp where lots of quads have to turn around! haha