Has anyone looked in to or installed any performance upgrades for their Rush? I see SLP has a pipe and silencer available online now. I spoke to their tech support and a clutch kit and power commander are required if you install the pipe and silencer. I am a little reluctant to go that route as my dealer remommends to stay away from the power commander. I see AAEN also has a pipe available, I will have to see what is required with their pipe.
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Performance parts for 800 rush
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D.B. Cooper
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Has anyone looked in to or installed any performance upgrades for their Rush? I see SLP has a pipe and silencer available online now. I spoke to their tech support and a clutch kit and power commander are required if you install the pipe and silencer. I am a little reluctant to go that route as my dealer remommends to stay away from the power commander. I see AAEN also has a pipe available, I will have to see what is required with their pipe.
I have a PC-3 on my D-7 for the last 3-4 seasons, single best mod to a CFI sled , period!
Why stay away from the PC-5? There's more to be gained with a fuel controller than the pipe.
It's a jetting kit for CFI's?
You wouldn't run a sled with the stock jets (on a carbed sled) that came from the factory all the time if you were looking to fine tune it, would you?
SLP claimed 11+ h.p. at first on their RUSH 800 pipe, now revised it to 7 h.p., now adding a heat shield.
I believe 5+/- H.P. was shown to be gained with the PC-5 ONLY!
Once the sled is fine tuned with the fuel controller, only a minimal amount of power is gained with ANY aftermarket pipe, that's ben shown on DYNOYECH's dyno on the 700 + 800 CFI's several times.
I'd get the PC-5, forget about the pipe, I.M.H.O.
I'm looking at the 136" Pro-Ride 800 for 2012, will do the PC-5, Fast-TRAX MOTOR PLATE, shave the head (.020" or so) or install after-market head, SLP air kit, check to make sure everything is true and correct (see my TECH TIPS for 600/700/800 CFI thread) and run it.
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I believe the reason they told me that was because they had a customer that went in and changed the mapping themselves and burned down an 800 dragon three times. Obviously this is no fault of the product but it has them a little gun shy. I have read your tech tips and it definitely looks like you know what you are talking about. I was disapointed to see that you dont have time to work on other peoples sleds, cuz that was the first thought that came to my mind!
power commander 5 is the best controller out there hands down. only bad part is no adjust on the fly.but you can have a switch installed and have 2 maps loaded.I am sure guys more tech minded than me can prob have maps on there phone and change in the field but I think 2 would be fine for most.the only testing with mods dynotech has done on the 11 is to shim up base gasket cut head to get porting the same as 10 thinking that could be where the HP loss came from.but it did not increase hp increased air flow kinda strange but what you gonna do.they will prob start getting piped 800s in this summer I would not buy until getting a 2nd party dyno sheet
D.B. Cooper
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power commander 5 is the best controller out there hands down. only bad part is no adjust on the fly.but you can have a switch installed and have 2 maps loaded.I am sure guys more tech minded than me can prob have maps on there phone and change in the field but I think 2 would be fine for most.the only testing with mods dynotech has done on the 11 is to shim up base gasket cut head to get porting the same as 10 thinking that could be where the HP loss came from.but it did not increase hp increased air flow kinda strange but what you gonna do.they will prob start getting piped 800s in this summer I would not buy until getting a 2nd party dyno sheet
SLP /Bikeman/ and dyno results were posted from Pipes/PC-5, Dustin from SLP was on SnoWest,was kind enough to answer specific ?? about PC-5 only and Pipe only, that's where the info came from.
D.B. Cooper
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I believe the reason they told me that was because they had a customer that went in and changed the mapping themselves and burned down an 800 dragon three times. Obviously this is no fault of the product but it has them a little gun shy. I have read your tech tips and it definitely looks like you know what you are talking about. I was disapointed to see that you dont have time to work on other peoples sleds, cuz that was the first thought that came to my mind!
Thanks for the kind words, If I had the extra time, I'd do it for ya, just don't have enough time left.
If I can help you out in any way here on the net, just ask, be glad to
D.B. Cooper
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What are they showing the 2011 800 stock HP as? Does the resistor make a difference? Bottom line, should I consider a 2012 800 switchback?
You'll gain 5 h.p. on using the non-ethanol plug/resistor with the 10% Ethanol fuel
143 h.p. - 148 - 152 h.p. depending on who's dyno #'s you believe
The 2011 800's seem to be holding up??with the 2-injector set-up and fuel curve along with less compression
We'll know for sure by the end of the season,
if so it's a 2012 800-136" in RED for me