LOL. That has to do with reflash how exactly?
BTW, I don't disagree that my clutching could be better on that machine. I swapped helix's later in the year, which helped, but it was pretty late at that point. Can't remember if that vid was before or after lowering the primary clutch finish rate and dropping weight.
Either way, clutching these 850s is a whole other thing, and something I won't pretend I'm some guru on. Goal was to set something up that didn't blow belt (it doesn't), held RPM (it does) and mitigated lag (its not bad).
Great job on the clutching. With the 850 if you can prevent blown belts you are doing good. Love the light spring light weight direction.
I don't believe that either of you have a bad product. The issue is the 850 engine harmonics that vibrate these engines, electronics and wiring to self destruction. Imagine what harmonics can do to a delicate injector.
Food for thought-Go outside to your car and remove a front wheel. Now put washers on 3 studs in a row. Reinstall wheel.
Drive down freeway. Feels like the car is going to vibrate itself into pieces. Wheel is crooked. Crooked wheel no good.
Wobble clutch is doing the same exact thing except that the engine is also made to run out of balance on purpose by Brpoutine engineers.
Imagine, if you will, making your engine run out of balance, on purpose, only to be corrected by your crooked, vibrating wheel on the car. Drive it with wobble wheel for a year and your car has now mechanicly ate itself from the inside out and is junk. Just like the 850 engines and pdrive clutches. They don't last nearly as long as expected. Like 75% less. The Pdrive was touted as lasting forever but it needs a rebuild in 2000 mountain miles. The engine was gonna last 10,000 miles and it now maybe lasts 2000 mtn miles. It could be even a combo of the engine harmonics and pdrive wobble. If I owned this company, I would welcome the first day 850 warranties start to expire.(I wouldn't truthfully be happy but you get the picture). Now the customer pays for everything and I get to sell them the parts. There can be no argument from the customer because the warranty is expired. It's ugly but that's how she goes. It's not the dealers fault.
Wobble engine+wobble clutch=vehicle self destructing harmonics. In the 80's Yamaha had a harmonics issue as stated by Olav Aaen below. History repeats itself I guess.
I hope Arctic Cat takes a huge chunk of market share in turn giving Brp a huge kick in the butt to dump this 850 chassis/pdrive platform and do some much needed engineer housecleaning. Way too many engineering issues to ignore.
I am available for a Brp/Kanedog Mountain sled team up to dominate the mtn segment on the next Brp platform. I test and tune at 5000ft till June every year if Brp wants to expand to mountain testing from parking lot testing. No charge for showing you the dumb engine/clutch/harmonics problem by the way. Give my 250k/year engineer salary to local sled clubs to help keep areas open so Brp can continue to sell more sleds. Come with me Brp! I can show you a better way!
Love, the always entertaining & sometimes over the line, Kanedog.
These are my beliefs.
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