To stud or not to stud that WAS the question!

[Yamadog]

I got the sled out Sunday a week ago with all the new upgrades. The snow was not great and I had no race gas so the switch was set at 9#'s of boost only. I was getting a LOT of track spin even down to bare ground. I knew hookup was going to be a problem at 12#'s so I made the decision to go ahead and add studs to the screw in stud points that I already have. The 200 screw ins are worn and several have come out. So I left them in and added 142 Woody's 1575 with grand master plates for single ply tracks all between the windows. I Installed this many hoping that spread the load over more studs will reduce the stress on each individual stud since this is a single ply track.

I went with a 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, repeating pattern and have enough left I can add 2 to the rows of 2 to make it a 3, 4, 3 pattern at 164 total

 

[stingray719]

Set the chassis for more transfer on takeoff, I had to do that on my old 280hp Nytro.

 

[Yamadog]

Set the chassis for more transfer on takeoff, I had to do that on my old 280hp Nytro.

Thanks Sting - I put the Hygear coupler system in it. it now pulls the skis 12" when it hooks up and takes off like a rocket instead of thr front climbing to the sky. Hey should I send those Evol Rc'2 with Yamahatim so you can try them out there this week???????

 

[stingray719]

Naw I have mine dialed in with the Fox Float 3's and really like it.

 

[Yamadog]

K just asking!!! I don't think they would do anything for you in that environment anyhow.

 

[stingray719]

K just asking!!! I don't think they would do anything for you in that environment anyhow.

That was my thought too, why have expensive shocks in powder. Thanks very much for the offer though.

 

[Studroes144]

Are 1.575" studs gonna do anything for you? Thought the xtx had a 1.6" track?

 

[TD Max]

They rate stud lengths goofy. in many cases.


I would have thought more on the order of 192+ probably a bunch more for the HP of that turbo with 12 psi.

 

[drumz11]

That track is going to balloon like a mother in the middle. That's one downside to studding the single ply heavy up the middle. I know a lot of guys don't like studding the outside but many swear that doing so helped a lot with the ballooning of the single ply Cobra on the Turbo cats. May not be a factor if you are not racing or near top speed runs. Mine would balloon and rub even unstudded at high speed when the track wasn't pretty tight.