Grass dragging with the mono suspension

[vmax80096]

I have an apex 06 and was considering grass dragging this summer but have been told that the mono skid is no good. You either set the suspension so you don't have a great deal of ski pressure the you have too much transfer and if you back off the transfer then you have too much ski pressure mid track till the end. I would hate to have to go to an 07 just to get out of the mono skid!

 

[BURMAD69]

You can set up any skid for grass, Remember LOOSE is fast, All shocks set as soft as they go, track as loose as you dare run it,get the sled as low to ground as you can,strap or chain the sikd if you have to also strap the front suspension to keep it from dropping out if it lifts. you need to keep enough ski pressure to keep it from lifting (over 2 inchs) you want to go forward not up when you launch. its pretty much a balancing problem, but it can be done,My 03 RX-1 wityh an 06 mono launches awesome of course my son's F7 kicks my butt on grassbut it weighs about half as much as mine does.

 

[Srxspec]

2007 with proactive skid is 1.5 tenths & 2mph faster in 500 feet than a 2006 with monoshock. Both revalved, sucked down, and setup. Both sleds had same engine, track, gearing, clutching setups, etc. If you stay with monoshock I have shock & spring that is revalved & limited travel and will be way better than just softening spring & tying it down.

 

[vmax80096]

Sounds like if one is going to race then you have to get an 07, which is too bad. 1.5 tenth and 2mph is just too much of a difference to even consider the mono. Guess the other option is to swap an 07 skid into an 06, but then that would be considered cheating!

 

[BURMAD69]

Just find an 03 pro-action skid for the grass.

 

[vmax80096]

What do the rules say about skids...do you have to run the stock skid in stock or can you run any yamaha skid...if you can run anything you want long as it is yamaha then you would run the vmax skid...way lighter

 

[Srxspec]

If you are running an organized event you must run the skid that came in the sled.

 

[BADSLED]

2007 with proactive skid is 1.5 tenths & 2mph faster in 500 feet than a 2006 with monoshock. Both revalved, sucked down, and setup. Both sleds had same engine, track, gearing, clutching setups, etc. If you stay with monoshock I have shock & spring that is revalved & limited travel and will be way better than just softening spring & tying it down.

I would have never guessed the proactive skid transferred that much better. Wish it was available in 136"...

 

[Srxspec]

It's not about "transfer" so much as it is about keeping the skis off the ground. The monoshock does not have the ability to keep pressure on the front of the track and the skis in the air like you have with any of the other conventional suspensions.