His transmission was loosing oil. They ran out of extra oil so RG towed them to the pavement where they could get more oil. Very classy move.
Early in the race it was a front shock. I believe he is still racing. His tracker stopped working about 3 hours ago around race mile 835.
What happened?
A poorly penetrated weld on the Super ATV trailing arm let go. Freak deal. They already shipped me new ones. Have the stock trailing arms on there.
Heard about that Shark. Glad the crew got you going enough to ride. But lets not bring up the whole Bad weld thing as it might spark a ton of chit talk again about Speed welds and people never buying one. Should people stop buying Super ATV stuff now due to bad welds.? LMAO
It was good seeing you! Hopefully you will make it out between Christmas and New Years.
It will be interesting to see how they do head to head once both our out in the public.https://utvactionmag.com/polaris-rzr-pro-r-vs-speed-utv-robby-gordon-edition/amp/
Flame away kiddies, flame away.
So these cars will be around 3000 lbs with 4 passengers. Seems pretty heavy for 225hp. I will be curious if the extra torque of the bigger engine will help with a heavy loaded car.
It's a CVT, torque doesn't factor in the same way it would with a traditional drivetrain. Now, before everyone jumps down my throat, I'm not saying torque doesn't matter at all - in fact we all know HP is a made-up figure derived from TQ anyway. HP = (TQ*RPM)/5252 However, with a properly setup CVT anytime you're "on it" you're at or around peak HP-RPM, under load it will never really be at the peak TQ RPM. Now, the bigger motor (and more efficient head, more efficient turbo/exhaust layout, etc.) will help it spool faster and get you to full boost at peak HP RPM more quickly when you call for power and yes when run through a traditional dyno sweep on an engine dyno I'd expect to see more TQ from the Speed motor than the current Polaris and Can AM turbo offerings, but again you won't really be "using the TQ" when you call for power.
I think they will scoot around and the only time you will really notice the weight is climbing a steep dune. If the person knows how to drive in the dunes and use momentum they will be fine. If they think dune runs are just plowing up and down they will be belt burners.
The biggest difference is the 4 banger Polaris motor might not be working as hard. With all the crap some people put on their 4 seaters now I would think fully loaded they rolling around in the 2700lbs range.