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MOD SLEDS
With the addition of bolt-on parts, clutching, tuning and the like, aftermarket sleds from D&D Racing, Bikeman Performance, BCM Performance, Team Howard’s and Speedwerx proved just how much speed could be added and elapsed time (ET) could be shaved. This is the Modified portion of the New York Shootout, and it’s fast and fun! Both 2-stroke and 4-stroke power adders were on full display at the Shootout this year. Many of the top 800 stock honors belonged to the Polaris 800 this year, but there was more Polaris performance to be had. The Bikeman/BCM Performance 2017 800 Switchback equipped with Bikeman’s Stage 1 performance kit, muffler and Y-pipe shaved a half-second off the 660-foot ET compared to the stocker.
Now a half second doesn’t seem like much, but it’s important to understand being 0.5 seconds faster than the next guy at 660 feet in a drag race is a good ol’ fashioned butt whoopin’!
D&D’s Arctic Cat 800 trail mod sled was equally impressive with its 2-stroke performance parts. D&D’s High Port Riot porting and Magnaforce clutch kit on the mod Cat 800 added 6 mph and cut nearly a full second off the ET compared to the stock Arctic Cat 800 runs.
Billy Howard’s 2017 Arctic Cat XF 9000 High Country is a known entity on the asphalt drag circuit, and at other AmSnow events. The sled cleared 130 mph in the quarter-mile at AmSnow’s Super Sled Shootout just a couple of months prior to the New York event. Now changed over for snow drags, the big Cat turbo sled showed what even minimal aftermarket mods can do to improve a stock sled. Sporting only a Speedwerx muffler and the adjustable wiegths from their Stage 1 clutch kit, it ran through the 660 mark at 96.36 mph and lowered the stock ET by nearly half a second.