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VIPER Carbides

I am going to the shop to add accessories and change skid settings for ride tomorrow I will take some pictures
 

How about CARBIDES? Anyone? SnowTrackers? Cat Staggereds?
 
Re: screw ins

Yamadog said:
A stud for a 1.6" track is not available and would be too long on this single ply track would just lay over

Studboy and Woody's both have kits for this track. Studding the 1.6 cobra on the Cat XF's is very common if you really wanted to go that route. Same chassis and skid.
 
Just installed snow trackers tonight. Will be doing a 50 mile ride tomorrow to see how it works. The stock setup darted pretty bad!
 
No reviews yet !! On carbides
Newtron did you go aggressive or semi snowtrackers on stock skis ? And how many studs .
 
new rob said:
No reviews yet !! On carbides
Newtron did you go aggressive or semi snowtrackers on stock skis ? And how many studs .

Went with Semi. Had aggressive on my apex and found them a bit extreme. I am running 144 studs
 
Looking forward to review . You heading to Barry's bay ? Did the loop 3 times last year great ride!!
 
new rob said:
Looking forward to review . You heading to Barry's bay ? Did the loop 3 times last year great ride!!

The rail road bed is groomed and a few access roads. Will probably go up to lake st. peter then loop back to Bancroft across baptiste lake
 
Put 75 miles on the viper today with the snow trackers. Very happy with these runners compared to stock. No darting with a slight push in the corners. Shocks are set a 75lbs but might crank them up a little to get a little more bite.

I don't mind a slight push in the corners.....better than that unpredictable inside ski lift.

Was riding with my buddy that had a 14 800 etec and he was getting the slight push in the corners as well. I always find a the sled pushes a bit in the corners with early snow conditions.

Sled handles good. My last 2 sleds were 800 etecs which handled great. So far I don't see any disadvantage in the handling department
 
FYI for you guys on a possible carbide option for these skis. Now I haven't picked up my Viper yet to compare the ski's...but I am assuming the ski's are the same ski that are on my wife's 2007 F8. If not and they are different...disregard this post. My biggest thing for her sled was to not make the sled a heavy steering sled and to get rid of any darting. I threw on a set of 6" Woodys Slim Jims and couldn't of ask for any better results. Easy/light/no effort steering and no darting at all. I have rode this sled a bit also and put it through its paces and this ski/carbide combo work quite well. Instead of buying carbides for my stock Viper skis I am gonna put on a set of Pilots I have laying around and run those first. If the Pilots are not the ticket I will try the stock ski/slim jim combo and test that.
 
Studboy's 6" duallys are working great in early snow conditions. Very little push with the shaper bar and the way the carbides are set into the shaper bar does not allow rocks/stones to be picked up like some other dual carbide designs. Seem to work well where there is ice under 12-15 inches of lake effect snow.
 
I just put on 70 miles on the staggered carbides which I bought at a local cat dealer for 45$(take off) and they are way better than 4" stokers very little to no darting with acceptable push in corners.
 
At SNODEO on Saturday I spoke with the gentlemen there from the YAMAHA Factory. He said that they did all of their testing with the SNOW TRACKERS. He stated that they expected the SNOW TRACKERS to not hold up and found them to be incredible. He suggested that if I didn't want to spend the $250 to go with the CAT staggered 4-1/2" carbides, otherwise the SNOW TRACKERS were his first choice. I figured I would try the staggereds first. So I went over to Big Moose YAMAHA and the parts guy said that if you get the CAT staggered carbides they were $10 less than the YAMAHA ones and they are exactly the same.
 
We put 175 mile on the new viper xtx and all I can say is AWSOWE if we can get it better than stock carbides let me know I thought It handled grate compaired to my Nytro witch had ski lift out ofvery corner If you guys have a recipe me know other wise couldnot be happer with this sled!!!! :Rockon:
 


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