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Joining the SXS club

Nice. We hit pretty much every trail on the full size portion of the park save a couple of the extreme ones. Long day of wheeling but a blast. Did a few things I didn't think I could do which was nice. Sliders took a good hit at some point. I really need to stack some coin and get the transmission regeared and then a new clutch setup. The 32's and stock gearing just isn't the best. Plus I'm looking at throwing 35's on it.

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Building a complete auxiliary electrical system on the rzr. The only tie to the factory electrical is the keyed 12v that switches the relay on the top left corner. The red bar is a switched 12v bus bar and the box in the middle is a 12 circuit fuse block that’s powered by a secondary battery.IMG_4550.jpeg
 
More of a MAW thing. The winch, lights, and soundbar are all going to be run from the secondary battery. This way I don’t have to worry about the starting battery running down.

Won’t be an issue on the charging system. Compared to a lot of folks, my load is minimal. Some of these people run sound systems that are competition level with enough lights to rival a rock concert.
 
Gotcha. You gonna connect it with the relay when you need to charge it back up I'm assuming? Might need to do a continuous duty relay if you have issues with relays not lasting but it might be fine.
 
centexk5 said:
.... a new transmission with 25% lower gears and a fully geared reverse instead of chain drive. Also installed rollers in the secondary to replace the square pucks.


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Holy schnikies batman, how much was that thing?

Does the gearing happen before the outputs, meaning, do you need to regear the front diff or the rear outputs still match the front output?
 
$4100 shipped. Not the cheapest way to lower the gears but the upgraded reverse gear, snorkel, pinion support, and case make it worth it. Plus it saves me the hassle of tearing down my old trans and having to rebuild it.

All gearing is before the outputs. The rear axles go straight into the transmission and the front diff is essentially just an e-locker.
 
centexk5 said:
$4100 shipped. Not the cheapest way to lower the gears but the upgraded reverse gear, snorkel, pinion support, and case make it worth it. Plus it saves me the hassle of tearing down my old trans and having to rebuild it.

All gearing is before the outputs. The rear axles go straight into the transmission and the front diff is essentially just an e-locker.
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The front diff still has a ring and pinion and a differential, the elecrronic piece engages the front axles, its not a locker, or a spool like the back.

They must of matched the output gearing of the rear to the front and changed the entire gearing before that.

I put a clutch kit from aftermarket assassins in mine, but I like the factory gearing with the factory tires. I'd be afraid of breaking stuff with bigger tires on those little tiny bearings and axle parts.
 
You are right but there's no changing anything in the front diff and I'm not aware of a company making any different gears for the diff. The gears that are adjusted are the actual high and low gears. Not certain how they do the final drive honestly and haven't found anyone really discussing it. Just jumping from the factory 29's to a set of factory 32's really killed low gear. Low gear is now similar to high gear and high gear is useless below 20-30mph. I can run up to 20mph in low gear without taching out. Which really kills me in the rocks because I've gotta really throttle it to get it to climb.

I'm stacking money for upgraded axles and a duraclutch setup from hunterworks.
 
My biggest gripe about a SxS is the low range, it sucks and doesn't even feel low. Those guys rock crawling them are rock bouncing not crawling.
 
That's the big difference with the rock crawling, I do wooded trails and dunes, so for me low gear rarely even gets used as it's too low.
 
Babaganoosh said:
My biggest gripe about a SxS is the low range, it sucks and doesn't even feel low. Those guys rock crawling them are rock bouncing not crawling.
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100%. And bouncing breaks stuff. That's why I want to go portals next is to drop my gearing even lower so I can actually crawl.
 
The recent videos from Trail Breaker illustrated the difference in sxs and buggy gearing. The sxs just had to send it on their competition. Fun to watch but it was rough. Buggys on the same obstacles crawled right up
 
First ride down and it was smooth as glass. There’s so much more clearance with those new arms it’s ridiculous. And you can definitely tell the lower gears. 25mph in high is 5000rpm. 15mph in low is 5200 or so. High gear is now useable again. Just realized how much work I’ve done to this thing since June.

Skid plates
Winch
Trailing arms
Wheels bearings
Transmission
Lights
Aux electrical system
Secondary roller conversion
Reverted back to stock muffler
Reverted back to stock tune

This thing has never been smoother. I can’t wait to get it on the rocks in a couple of weeks.

Still tweaking the transmission shifter. I can get park but it doesn’t register on the dash unless I move the lever an 1/8”. If I tweak it to get that then I can’t get high. Think I’m going to take a die grinder to my shifter gates (EMP shifter) to get me just a touch more movement and then I’ll be good.
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Side note seems like every snow bird has a sxs, the dust in the air makes both sides of the river look like Los Angeles in the 70s. Can hear them out before 4am and as late as 12-1am.
Don't understand. The trails and washes near town are boring the 2nd or 3rd time out.
Down to standard wash there tons off good trails and interesting destinations even some good bird hunting. Won't help the air though
 
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