You make one comment about how they should be focusing on the engine failures and all hell breaks loose. LMAO!!!!
It is fun watching their heads explode when you point stuff out. And LOTD’s just doing what he does. The smartest man he’s ever met.
They’ve graduated him to moderator over there. If any guy in the internet space needed some power it was him for sure.
I think in this case his ego preceded him and no one wanted to deal with the legal exposure of business with RG. He was forced to make his own engine.
Gonna have it stick a foot out the passenger side?
I do agree you should never wrap your thumbs in any off road vehicle, regardless of speed or required steering input. That said, I'm not sure the UTV world as a whole fully understands or properly uses the term "steering feedback." Working the steering wheel != steering feedback.
Why would you venture such a guess? RG made videos, literally for years going through the whole engineering process. What does "based of the Z1" actually mean anyway? It shares zero parts with it, nothing is interchangeable, and the design is actually pretty different (the cylinder has intake/exhaust on opposite sides as compared to Z1s, for example). That said, yeah they're both 2cyl, 4-stroke motors that are around 1000cc so I guess that's "based of"?
I agree with you regarding steering feedback, what's shown in the video is not feedback, thats a guy sawing away at the wheel. They also mentioned it was icy, so I'm guessing that was him trying to keep it straight.
I got mine on Saturday. I went through the whole car. I found 6 hand tight roof bolts and one breather hose not connected. I have been almost killed because of bad prep and so I go through every car we get the same way. I felt the final assembly did a great job. With the exception of what I stated above every bolt was tight and marked. As far as the car it’s self. I am super impressed. The tube chassis, the welds and the Arms are what I would expect building a high end race chassis. The shocks are monstrous. My cars fit and finish is amazing, the car is absolutely stunning. All of my adds including my boom box worked great. The car is fully wired for every option even if you don’t get it, all the way down to the custom switch. I thought that was really cool. I put 30 fast dirt miles on the car on Sunday. The car ran flawlessly and had a ton of power considering it is a tank. I have heard 2600lbs but I am not sure what it actually weighs. She is heavy though. The suspension is by far the best side by side suspension I have ever been in. The car is absolutely planted. I was able to get up to 90 fairly quickly in the dirt. The car didn’t walk at all or buck at that speed. I actually was shocked when I looked down and saw the mph. The windshield and suspension made it feel like I was just cruising. I had zero steering feedback so maybe that issue is resolved in the newer cars. The car didn’t overheat even with the windshield. I know Robbie is not stoked on the windshield because they didn’t really design the car for it. It is funny, you can feel the heat vortex or whatever they call it with the windshield. My belt got to 190 on the 30 mile run. I went back through the car when we got back and didn’t find anything. This is experience as an actual owner.
Love hearing it, and from our phone call the other day I knew you were really impressed. For those not tracking, and because @DZRTRUN didn't want to brag, this guy has had it all. From Racer to Funco (several of them, including 2 brand new builds... the newest being a full-on show quality build most of you probably saw at the SSSS) so we're not talking about a guy going from a RZR800 RG edition to a Speed with no other context.
Congrats! I am happy to hear some positive feedback again. Hopefully they got some bugs worked out and this will be the norm.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it also from what I’ve been seeing on some of the other forums and guys have been weighing these they’re right around 28 to 2900 pounds. pretty heavy as you said. With that said everyone needs to manage their expectations in the Sand dunes. Otherwise they seem to be performing very well everywhere else. I was able to ride behind a four seater with two adults and two kids on Presidents’ Day weekends from Oldsmobile Hill out a few miles and back by all means they get around in the sand.
I had heard they were close to 3k in weight but wasn’t sure. That being said. I am sure the E85 will help but I doubt it’s going to make up for that weight if you are trying to race up the hill but, we will see when people start running around with the speed key.
