We weighed our sled..

[Kachess]

We finally got around to siphoning out all the gas and weighing my son's RX1. The lightest I ever got my sled was 555. His weighed in at 537lbs, almost 100lbs ligher than stock. The only difference between his and mine is he has a Boss Summit ZX seat installed, and the undertunnel exhasut we didn't have when I last weighed mine. He's that light and he doesn't have a lite brake rotor, steering posts, or a-arms. Shows you can gett'em light without spending a mint. Also explains why he can throw it around like his 02 800 summit. It weighs the same!

 

[Trxster]

you gotta post that on snowest!!! That also includes oil weight though, right? What do we hold, 4 quarts....has to be another couple of pounds.


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[AaronBND]

Kachess........all I can say is you always inspire me. With all your posts, knowledge and great videos you totally motivate me to keep dumping money into my sled to make it better. You are just pure and simple man. I like that! Keep it up! We're gonna ride together some day!

Aaron

 

[ViperTurboPete]

Yeah! You make us spend money we don't have!!! That sled rocks the house.

 

[Rx1M5]

I was curious as to how you actually weighed the sleds? What scale did you use. I've weighed mine only fully fueled and ready to ride with spare belts etc. but I have quite a few more light weight mods than you've listed. For example I have Full aluminum steering, alu bumper brackets, cro mo front end, aluminum cross shafts on a lightened M7 skid with a cro mo arm,Ti exhaust parts, 05 brake system, Magnesium chaincase cover, cromo steering post, lightened steering gate and a whole bunch of other things that added up to a few pounds. I weighed all the parts individually as well as on the sled. Everything I did came to 93.75 lbs off as compared to the stock 03. Specialty sleds in Edmonton weighed an 03 on a hanging scale right out of the crate dry 611 lbs. Theres a pic on their website. Weve been weighing our sleds on a certified 4 pad digital race car scale and to a man everyones sled was a little heavier than they thought it would be. Don't get me wrong I think what you are doing is right on the money and totally the way to go. I make everything myself too cause thats just the way I am and I also belive in the rx but based on fluid volumes etc I'd be in at 531 dry with what I've got done to my sled. The fluids add up to pretty close to 80 lbs. If I'm missing some weight loss posibilities I'd sure like to know where. Keep up the the innovations and good work.

Rx1M5

 

[Kachess]

Your method is surely more accurate. We have flat digital scale that goes up to 400lbs. Not really a bath scale, but not to the level of an indusrial scale, either. We raise the sled up on blocks to keep it level and then move the scale to the three support points at the skis and a pont under the rear of the track. We make sure the sled stays level and repeat the measurement three times. The readings rarely deviate more than a pound. When I weighed my first 03 stock with this method, no gas, I got 631lbs. Sounds like you've done alot of stuff, and my weight may not be that accurate. On my sled I've drilled, and milled brackets, have all the lite steering parts, rotors, a-arms, parking brake. I'd hate to figure our what I've spent. We wanted to do my kids sled on a budget so we only went after "big bang" stuff. It takes alot of milled brackets and hollowed shafts to add up to the savings he got with a 5lb exhaust, no fairings, heatshields, cones, or a 6lb seat. My modified stock seat weighs close to 17lbs most off the time because it's full of water. The holz suspension supposedly saves 34lbs alone, and I think is lighter than an M7. In summary, my kid's sled weight probably is not 100% accurate. But we didn't remove his spare belt or siphon the last drop of gas either. My only point was you can make an RX1 resonably light without breaking the bank.

 

[Rx1M5]

You are right about the breaking the bank point and to be honest I don't believe most guys can feel 10 lbs one way or the other.