Switched Brands And Excited

[REV800X]

I ride with mostly Polaris sleds and I was riding a 600HO 1.25 w/96 studs up the middle and several times this winter I lined up against 4 edgeX 700 and 1 800 and beat them EVERY time. The all kept telling me that they would have caught me on a longer run but we were running about a mile and they were nowhere in sight. The funny thing was that the 800 was getting beat by the 700 and now 3 of them have ordered revs and the others are doing some summer tuning

[CORY9]

good to here about your new skidoo.i am thinking about going to a sdi engine next year myself.. will it smoke your old 700 xc? well, i have a 99 mxz600, i am good friends with 3 polaris nuts that talk big, all with 700xc's, so when i smoke 2 of them,the excuses come flying. the 3rd guy has a 998cc genesis engine in his,im about 4-5 sled lenghts behind him after 1 mile.. not to bad if you ask me .

cory9's son

[Doome007]

[/QUOTE]THis is based on the 10.6Gallon tank. That worked out to about 210-220km per tank. Now that is already amazing in my opinion. Ive never had a sled get more then 160km on a tank, my Mach got about 130-140km so this is great. Now SDI will be better, I wouldnt be suprized to see 15-17mpg and about 260km per tank if not more.
[quote]Mzz1 10.6 is U.S Gal. which is actually 8.8 Imp. gal. alot of posts report about 15 mpg U.S.{ or 18 Imp.} now with the SDI. 2-3 mpg better you may see 20MPG. IMP. I hope, but will find out in time {600SDI. Adrenaline coming}oil consumption figures to be better as well gas-oil ratio's being equal.. also last years fuel gauges were of by 3-4 gal. when reading empty{still left} Ski-doo said they are addressing this

[Machzzzz1]

Well doome007 I hope your right.

But we ride with 3 sometimes 4 rev 600HOs. Bought at diffrent dealers. All of them, and I mean all of them would stall withen seconds of each other if we let them run out of gas. They are unbelivably identical. And we have not seen more then 220km on a tank. Now this is under real driving conditions, Not speeding, but not putting. Just normal trail driving.

Maybe I screwed up the calculation, but if anyone says there getting more then 220 or even 215 then they got a rare 600HO.

[mpsrent]

Different points of view always appear when discussing fuel economy. Weather conditions, trail conditions, terrain, speed, throttle response and rider weight all come in to play. The best real world comparison is for two similar riders to operate different machines riding together under the same conditions. This is how I guage sleds, and its worked quite well. For sensible trail riding, my 600HO got fantastic fuel economy. Note the word "sensible", with 50 mph or 80 km the average on smooth wide northern Ontario or Quebec trails. When riding with many other sleds, the little HO was always the best on fuel. Now crank the speed up a few notches to where the 600 is chasing 800's at WOT and watch fule economy go right out the window with a drop down to 180 km per tank.

As amazing as my 600HO was (as high as 240km to a tank 145mi?), the sled that beat me in a big way for economy under the same trail riding conditions was an 800SDI Legend. If most sleds were $22, I was $19, but the 800 SDI was $12. I didn't need a calcultor to figure out that it was costing my friend on the SDI far less than the rest of us. We had some friends with fuel pigs that needed $30 to his $12 in one fill up. Now that hurts!
So guess what I just ordered? 04 Adrenaline with a 600SDI. 1.25 track and e/s.
BTW - I drove the 800SDI for a fair bit. Throttle was always crisp like EFI. Starting was easy and the sled burned that much less oil.

Thanks for the input. I was fairly confident in the decision. How long to get adjusted from conventional edge chassis riding to rev platform riding? What kind of differences in ride should I notice-- being a fan of the edge suspension and never riding a rev?

[Doome007]

Mpsrent your correct about the elements of the day having a big influence on mileage, I also like to compare the cost of a fillup at the pumps, my 99 600MXZ for example was very good I thought.Once this winter at the pump $34. for 98 670 MXZ {needed tuneup?}$27. for 600 tripple Yammi, $21. MXZ600 and $17. for 500 Legend fan {80 cents/litre}.But when it gets right down to it filler-up forget the costs[riding $$ is priceless]