Soooo buying your sled, THEN spend another roughly $3,650.00 to make it as light as an Axys that's stock, except for a $300 "take your pick of whatever can you want" is impressive? And have yet to see an Axys that "needs" a arms, shocks, belt tensioner, bumpers etc… Seem to be holding up fine around here? only one that I will give you is a tunnel support. While I've never seen one personally fail, they are the weakest link in that chain.
Any axys that gets ridden needs all of those things minimum. Remember I am a Polaris guy that got sick of having to throw away all that money to make my sled last through a weekend of riding so I jumped ship and am well aware of what it takes to ride a Poo.
That post was for fun comparing to the lightest Axys they build which has small track, crappy shocks, no powder coat etc. This cat bone stock with the 3" track will eat any stock Axys alive.
The stock 3" Axys is around 8 lbs lighter than the stock cat. I can drop 8 lbs by drinking coffee and dropping an "axys" on the way to the hill.
Also I get around $1200 for a belt drive and pipe and the track is a nearly free swap when you sell the new take off. After a year on a turbo I would rather have maybe $2k into light weight goodies and have factory power and reliability but for the guys that would rather give up their warranty and install a turbo to hang with a stock cat Polaris is definitely for you.
You know cat is doing something right when the Poo guys are over here to tell us how much cooler there Poo is than a sled they havent ridden. But all the poo guys I have talked to in the field that have rode it will tell you it does everything the Axys does a little bit better and has noticeably more power.
