Quick review of wrp seat, hygear shock.

[SumpBuster]

Merry Christmas to all, since it is Christmas eve! I think our best present was a great ride on Tug Hill yesterday, after a lousy winter last year. In any case, I put a wrp seat and had hygear do the dual spring thing, and added a set of gytr shocks up front, and a riser. Starting out soft, I must say I would challenge a more 'modern' apex to a go of it in the trash, as this sled is transformed. I bottomed slightly 4 times on a few square shoulder bumps (2 at 80 mph, so me bad), but the seat is so high, and well positioned, with my knees below parallel, it was nothing! On a few miles of ungroomed garbage, the sled shined...stay on the gas and the hygear was awesome, sucking it all up, as were the gytr's. They too are full soft with 3 clicks comp. 6 clicks rebound, again, from full soft. I have ski lift, but it is very controllable, and only when hard cornering....push down on the footrest inside, easily move on the wrp seat, and power through the turn. This is the best it's ever rode and handled, by far, and is a blast to ride. I have curve skis and 13mm bar. That's it! It all works together big league! Ripsaw2 track too, no studs. I like oversteer.

 

[RTX]

Sounds good.
How tall are you?

 

[SumpBuster]

About 5 10. My son is a little taller and loves it too. Wrp says the seat is + 2, but with the firmer foam, you are probably 3 inches higher riding, as the stock seats have softer foam and sag in more. Probably 210 ready to ride. Hygear sets the shock to your weight.

 

[Rtbo]

I too have the wrp seat. The first time they sent it the foam was way to soft, I called them and they sent another that was right. I also have fox floats with dual chambers and the mega shock with volume reducer revalved for 320lbs. Tried 6" shapers inside and woodys 4" outside on tuner skis. Also rocks hids. Went to the hill Friday to tune in suspension and adjust hids. I would never ride without the wrp seat again huge improvement with lake effect riser. I'm finally happy with the carbides and the hids are awesome. Suspension is great now too. I wanted to buy a 50th anniversary but the old apex is better than ever now, don't think I need a new one.

 

[SumpBuster]

That's where I'm at....the engines just get better...so what's the point of new? Have to do it all over again. Never been happy with any new sled, but the apexs have so much potential! And I like em heavy...lol....used to years of mach z's!

 

[smokum613]

Anxious to try my new WRP 2+ seat & 8" riser along with some new aggressive snowtrackers on my 2011 SE, as well as finally having a sealed intake for my Yamacharger to breath with (had an alumn one made), but I passed on the local 1st yellow opening trail run (man the trails looked rough and beaten to crap after only one day lol), and am stuck to waiting on the next snow event after this bout of thaw.

 

[evil eagle]

I had the wrp seat on my 07, it was great. Now my 16 apex stock seat looks a lot lower but is only 1 inch lower when I'm on it, But the new sleds seat is very hard.

 

[SumpBuster]

I noticed that most sleds don't have much of a seat. One, ahem, large fellow, had his new doo seat squished to the plastic. Can't be comfortable if you hit the sucker bump.
But it seems none of the monoshock variants solved the bottoming. This forum suggested I get hygears set up, and so far it is excellent. And we did find a very trashed trail to test it on.

 

[northern srx]

Thank you for the write up/review! I'm in the same boat with my '06 RTX wanting to do some upgrades. Any chance you could post a pic of your sled?

 

[SumpBuster]

This was from first snow in Nov., on our grass drag strip and the only difference is I have a taller riser now, but only an inch more. Added a little chrome bling door edging stuff between the tank cover and the seat. That silver sticker on the tunnel is gone too. It was an old trail pass.

 

[SumpBuster]

This was back when I put the gytrs on and new saddle bushings I hate slop. I also made new (13mm) sway bar bushings so the bar is tight in the chassis. Stock bushings are not tight, plus I have some wear in the bulkhead. I took 2 bushings, slit one, put it over the new one, and sanded with a Dremel sander drum until it was a tight fit in the bulkhead and on the bar. 100 miles on tug hill the other day and all is super tight yet. Not sure if you can get that suspension armor anymore.

 

[northern srx]

Thanks for posting the pics! Very helpful, looks great. The increase in seat height REALLY helps on any sled (for me anyway). It just seems to put your body in a better position to handle the sudden rough trail conditions you encounter - usually, at high speed and unannounced!

 

[SumpBuster]

It was just like someone on the forum said....the first 20 miles, like, okay, since you are gonna get ski lift by raising the center of gravity, but then after a hundred miles....won't part with it! You pull off the seat so easy, and can move around as its narrow on top...a great improvement, especially with the hygear shock. The sled is just fun, and reminds me of a former ski doo that would pick a ski, and you just powered through the turn. Best it's ever been, by far.

 

[SumpBuster]

Front shot taken Friday at Tuggers in Barnes Corners, Tug Hill.