Dan, have you ridden one with a tune or even the new tunes? While the power does come on sooner it still has to spool . So 5500 RPM cruising down the trail it spools pretty quick. But at 3700 RPM engagement it is a 135 HP NA sled like a Viper, maybe not even as good with the lower compression. With heavy weights it does not spool that hard IMHO. I am biased as I like launching at 5500 with 10 psi boost, that's fun. To someone coming off a Viper or the like these may seem violent as trail sled but they really aren't. Better than the 1100 but not light years from a power perspective and they need RPM whereas the 1100 would lug hard.
I am in the midst of a clutching swap....Only got a few pulls on 240r map, then 2 more on 270r map....Simply incredible coming from stock power!
Unfortunately the setup I had in was not belt friendly at this HP. So during the thaw Ive been waiting for new clutching to arrive.
I totally agree 100% with all you said about the spool.....And Im not sure I saw you around here much last season, but I was the one going on and on about laggy bottom end on another tuners map on the 17 I was riding last winter. Hence the reason I ordered and bought into the reverse helix with TP Orange thoery, as it sure made sense with certain NO SPOOL maps.
I ran my new 50th stock for 300 miles, breaking her in hard.....Only thing that I saw was massive belt dust, but no issues and it was getting faster as it broke in. At 300 miles I installed the TP orange(3/3) and reverse angle 33/35 Helix, as just about everyone here was doing based on last seasons theory. This worked great on the trail rides I did, I wished I had checked heat but I did not, and it was nice/snappy on trail for a stocker.
It was when I added the big power that the belt let go.....the massive torsional backpressure set at 3/3 was always in the back of my mind, since I pretty much had to rig up a setup to install it there. I knew we wanted more backpressure,but after the belt snap I knew right away it was too much.
I think its less about the helix and more about the backpressure what happened to mine, along with the big HP.
New setup going in now so will see where things go.
Dan