Where and when I ride I don't get a chance to see very many other sleds - we often ride 200 miles a day and meet less than a half dozen other riders on the trails. I've heard the SRX is fast but was wondering how it really compared to the other newer sleds out there. Not looking for bragging rights, just some honest opinions.
Waterfoul
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I ride a 600 Vmax and ride with a 700 SRX... we ride open trails and two tracks at 70+ often... but on a nice long straight away he SMOKES me badly.... he got 105 in a short burst just a few weeks ago... I was having clutch issues so he REALLY smoked me that day....
MN98VMAX
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Well, my sister had a friend up last weekend and he has a 800 Rev (2005) with 1.25" lugs and some clutch work. Against my '98 700 VMax he absolutely smoked me! We only made it to about 80 though, it probably would have got worse!
Mike
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scrapy
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That's like racing a camaro against a s-10 pickup !!!!!!!! Compare apples to apples.
SRXCAN
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scrapy said:
Yeah I agree, I raced a 800 Blair Morgan and had no problem. From a dead stop to a top end race.
We encountered some new F7's a couple of times last year on the trail. My son and I ride hard and so did these guys. On a 10 mile run of mountain road with lots of turns it was even all the way. We led and they chased with 1/2 mile between us from start to finish. I was on a vx800 (quite modified) and my son in front on an SRX. I know a lot of it is in the rider but I figured that 10 mile stretch was a good comparison test of the machines' speed and handling.
SRXCAN
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I have a Vmax-4 750, I never raced my SRX against it. I'd like to see how it does against my 700. I know my SRX will beat it but by how much.
I've had a few Vmax 4's. The one I currently have is an 800 pushing 185hp. I've put it up against one of my SRXs, an '01 that was set up by Jerry Hauck and with equal weight riders I think the SRX has the edge. It is very close. Neither of these machines is stock though so I don't know how good of comparison that is.
Cuzino19
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your Vmax 4 is pushing nearly 190 horses and a well tuned srx can run with it?
i run very good with all the big dawgs 800'900's on my mtn srx. and that thing is just a big heavy old pig!!! only lost to a stock class was a race against a 900 mtn cat at my last race. the rider of that sled and the sled had atleast 100 lbs less weight on me and it was very very close at the end
Cuzino19 said:
I was thinking the Vmax4 would have the edge and I keep trying. Last year we lined them up on a level hay field 3/4 mile long. This was before I had Hauck do some engine mods but the Vmax4 was over 173hp then and set up beautiful in the skid, clutch and engine - could pop the skis off the ground at 70 mph, just awsome torque and was turning at 8800 with PSI quads. The SRX is one I picked up from a fellow in Mn that was a friend of Jerry Haucks. Jerry took the sled and set it up for him. He said Hauck wouldn't tell him all that was done - trade secrets I guess - but that thing can just sit up and dance. For several runs on the hay field, standing start or running start, the Vmax4 could not keep up with the SRX. It was like the SRX was quicker and then would slowly creep away.
This year Pat Hauck redid the top end of the Vmax4 and figured he added another 12 to 16 hp. Fooling around it appeared the Vmax was going to take the SRX but when we lined them up the SRX was just a hair faster on the first run. The Vmax4 busted a piston the second run - guess the SRX really won that one.
In fairness to the VX800, I did not have the clutching where I wanted it and was short 300-400 rpm. However, the SRX really seems to move out.
Junior
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WildMax said:
I have to give you alot of credit man, not alot of guys have the balls to admit having lost a race, especially one that people seem to think should have been in the bag for you. Most guys would have lied or just not brought it up.
that said, I would imagine that that SRX is a far cry from stock if it's giving you that hard a run.
MN98VMAX
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scrapy said:
S10??? No, just two musclecars, one with drag slicks, and the other on old DOT tires... All I was doing was spinning my track while he hooked up good...
SRXCAN
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Junior said:
I will agree with you Junior, most guy's hate to admit they lost. If ya lose it makes you want to try harder the next time. When I first got my SRX I put on a clutch kit but no track, was told I needed traction but I said I had enouge power to catch up, well I didn't so the next time I had a 1'' 192 picks and beat everything from 700 stock, to 800 improved. It's all a learning untill you come up with the best setup. Have a great weekend I'm gone sledding
bufalobob
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a stock trail srx 700 & vmx4 800 will radar about the same speed in 2000' on ice. depending on the day around 108 - 112 mph. this is about the same as a xcr800. f6 &f7 also run about this same speed. thundercats will usually be about +3 mph. rx1 around 105 - 110 same distance. machz1000 114 - 117 mph.
those are trail sled real world numbers on a plowed & scraped ice track 2000'.
numbers will change depending on surface conditions & state of tune of the individual sled.
srx 700 is a good strong runner & will hang with most sleds on a long hard pull accross a lake.
bob
those are trail sled real world numbers on a plowed & scraped ice track 2000'.
numbers will change depending on surface conditions & state of tune of the individual sled.
srx 700 is a good strong runner & will hang with most sleds on a long hard pull accross a lake.
bob
Thanks Bob. That was what I was looking for. So are the sleds you spoke of the "top dogs" in this catagory?
bufalobob
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it's all about power to weight & efficiency. stock for stock the manufacturers supply the power & the tuner supplies the efficiency.
bob
bob
Well My buds and I raced back from Grand Marias To seny One night .A Viper sxr, 800 polaris's etc...some srx's a couple revs.on.on .Most of you know the terrain mostly twisties and a few wide open streacths To make a long story short, My 97 piped sx and I were drunk by the time the next rider rode in!
On a trail like that, I would guess that is more rider than machine.
Maxdlx's 700 sx would out run my sx600r all the time. Although my sx500r would wax most sleds in the ditches because of weight and the 2" paddle track.
I was up in the U.P. last week and my rx1 walked all over the '06 rev 800 and most of the time ran head to head with the '06 1000 c.c. renegade.
I have mt straps on mine and we were running powdery trails. Both the renegade and my rx1 were pegged and could only get 105-106 mph. I backed off to 90mph and pegged it again...lifed the ski's and pasted him up at 117 mph. This was during a 8" snowstorm and the trails were thick!
I was up in the U.P. last week and my rx1 walked all over the '06 rev 800 and most of the time ran head to head with the '06 1000 c.c. renegade.
I have mt straps on mine and we were running powdery trails. Both the renegade and my rx1 were pegged and could only get 105-106 mph. I backed off to 90mph and pegged it again...lifed the ski's and pasted him up at 117 mph. This was during a 8" snowstorm and the trails were thick!