ThunderCat vs 900R SHOOTOUT Top Speed

[actionjack]

The dumbass who claimed it costs $5k to build a Winder.

 

[actionjack]

Been watching an Ontario groups Youtube blogs. They have multiple Renegage 850s 2 Polaris 850s and a Mach in the group. The Mach is no match for the 850s in the videos. Pretty unscientific but consistently not good results for it.

 

[KnappAttack]

Spoke with my bud who has the Mack today, if its on the trail, even a hard lake trail, all it has in it is 107 MPH, and thats on the dreameter too! He said they are all like that. They just have no smoke to them. If they can't break into the ECU by next season and tune it, its getting the Hurricane ECU installed. I'm actually surprise he's going to keep it, maybe he sees the prices plummeting on them. I see new ones here now on Marketplace for just $21K at the dealers. Wasn't just a few weeks ago the used ones were at $25K or more. I believe the word is out...

 

[AAD]

Brothers Mach Z consistently run‘s 120-123mph on speedo not quite bare ice as had some snow also blown across in places it is studded 2 per bar 1.25 ripsaw track.
I have a TD tuned ’19 SRX extended to a 146” with zero studs with a 1.75 Hurricane track from a dead stop he would get out ahead of course but I would wheel him in passing him within quarter mile at a speed at least 10 mph faster then he was travelling.
The Mach Z is a nice trail sled still has some unwanted inside ski lift when pushed real hard even with those fancy high speed computers but it provides a very smooth ride and is a nice overall sled but my opinion is it should have been called a Mach 1
Belt on Mach Z needs to be adjusted every few rides and tighten boost tubes

 

[KnappAttack]

Brothers Mach Z consistently run‘s 120-123mph on speedo not quite bare ice as had some snow also blown across in places it is studded 2 per bar 1.25 ripsaw track.
I have a TD tuned ’19 SRX extended to a 146” with zero studs with a 1.75 Hurricane track from a dead stop he would get out ahead of course but I would wheel him in passing him within quarter mile at a speed at least 10 mph faster then he was travelling.
The Mach Z is a nice trail sled still has some unwanted inside ski lift when pushed real hard even with those fancy high speed computers but it provides a very smooth ride and is a nice overall sled but my opinion is it should have been called a Mach 1
Belt on Mach Z needs to be adjusted every few rides and tighten boost tubes

To put that into perspective. IF its hooked up 100% at best thats 110-113 GPS speed. The Dreameters are off 8% on the doo with good traction. I could do that on my NA 1200 in a short distance on the road. Thats pretty lame for a 193HP turbo machine honestly.

 

[number1kyster]

Get out the popcorn. Someone just posted that a 900r engine blew on DT. This should get out of hand real quickly.

 

[jonlafon1]

Get out the popcorn. Someone just posted that a 900r engine blew on DT. This should get out of hand real quickly.

this would be like gasoline on a fire! Yikes if it’s true.

 

[rtx moose]

Did you not notice they were not happy till dickhead got a tie out of it..my god what a one sided review..the guy hates yamaha and cat..total bs

 

[Phatboyc]

Any chance Doo is a big sponsor ? One issue with everything in this country .. Everything is bought and paid for and you sure as hell better not question it or show any negative about where the money trail is coming from?

For the last few years their Snowtrax tv show/youtube videos only had one of the four OEM sponsor and it was Yamaha. This year its both Ski-Doo and Yamaha.

 

[Phatboyc]

Its the same with every magazine or trade publication or website these days. When there is integrity in the publishing side the reader is often left to read between the lines for the real opinion, most often though there is just too much influence from the advertiser for them to risk making anyone mad.

Agreed but don't need to read between the lines as much here. AJ clearly said if they would have lined them up the Thundercat was quickest.

 

[Phatboyc]

Been watching an Ontario groups Youtube blogs. They have multiple Renegage 850s 2 Polaris 850s and a Mach in the group. The Mach is no match for the 850s in the videos. Pretty unscientific but consistently not good results for it.

 

[earthling]

Agreed but don't need to read between the lines as much hear. AJ clearly said if they would have lined them up the Thundercat was quickest.

I saw that, I was more commenting on 'in general' these days its hard to tell when a sponsor is getting coverage (pay to play articles/videos) vs the video being the result of independent coverage (snowtrax serving its audience). Since most of the videos on snowtrax tend to be of the review type, as opposed to industry coverage or deep coverage on technical issues, you are going to see a lot of sponsored content. That does not mean that the guys lack integrity or that they are being bought, I think it just comes down to the fact that they butter their bread by generating content that the manufacturers want to see and the public asks for. Even if Ski-Doo for instance was to never sponsor them, they would have zero credibility if they didn't spend time covering ski-doo because the market size and presence. I still do find you have to translate the marketing speak sometimes but no worse than any other outlet and far better than listening to the fanboys.

 

[74Nitro]

First race, can't see much of anything.
Second race meaningless as the sled veers off into fresh snow.
Third race, again the assault is in the harder packed lane.

 

[max rolph]

those guys have great comunicators, im wondering which ones they have, i have the UCLEAR motion infinity, and they are not that clear.

 

[earthling]

Thats funny, like deja-vu, was on those exact trails, same direction saturday and sunday last week. The Polaris XCR was parked up at Tims I believe at the south end of the lake on sunday, its a nice looking sled. Conditions out there on the lake are variable, I guarantee no matter what line they chose they were going to run into snow. There are no 'good lanes' to speak of. Its a very high traffic area they were at, just out of the video shot to the left of the sleds is a ton of people walking around, skating, ice fishing, and there are machines running back and forth across that track all day.