Gas smell may be as a result of no catalytic converter. All good stuff. Great to hear your results. How much louder or not is it?

 

At idle you can't tell it has an exhaust, even just cruising on the trail it's very quiet. As soon as you open it up tho you can hear it. It's definitely not loud but you can hear it.

That's a good point about the lack of cat, never even thought about that👍

 

AA tunes run out!

 

What do you mean "run out"

 

Guessing he means " they out run the competition" love my AA e85 tune on my Pro

 

Ditto that on the Stage 6 E85. Total beast mode! Looking forward to getting my car back from the dealer! Not holding my breath but looking forward to getting back on the trails!

 

Did you guys torque your head bolts 120 degrees?

 

Uuuuhhhh. Nope

 

I did not... But I'm on a custom stock injector e85 tune... Only 19.5 lbs of boost... Similar to a stage 4 tune

 

I'm.about to receive mine and the stage 4 tune and up suggests to torque head bolts 120 degrees more

 

Did you end up torquing your head bolts?

 

The torquing head things is odd. Head bolts are typically stretched to max clamping capacity. Want more? Need to get different material or bolt/stud. If this really works, then it’s super odd Polaris doesn’t torque them to this spec from factory. If Polaris did torque them to correctly engineered stretch, then doing this would actually weaken the setup. Maybe it’s the engineer in me overthinking it, but either way it’s odd. Clearly lots of people do it without issue.

 

The AA tunes run fat. That may be why you smell fuel.

 

This post makes me super happy!!!!

i just placed my order for a stage 3 kit from AA Wednesday.

Now I can’t wait.

 

Hows everyone feeling about the 3 and 4 tunes and who has torqued and not torqued?

 

Torqued and not torqued?

I have the AA stage 3 tune. Don’t use it much. It is strictly a dune tune. It is fun. Our trails are too tight to waste the extra fuel, so I run stage 1 on the trails.

 

Getting mine tomorrow with stage 2&3, can't freaking wait! I'm really looking forward to all the low gear limits being removed

 

What vendor?

 

I run AA stage 2, 3, and 4. I have not torqued the head bolts. I only run stage 4 on camping weekends for a day here and there but race fuel/octanium etc is expensive on top of running 94 so I dont run it all that often but when I do, she flat out rips. Typically I run stage 2 for the winter and stage 3 all summer.

I am a very happy customer. Would never go back to stock, if I bought a new machine tomorrow I'd tune it from day 1. Hope this helps!

 

I run 18.5+ PSI on mine with E50 and mild additional timing, which appears to line up with their level 5 & 6 tunes. Have never messed with the head bolts/studs. Dragy on the street with the OEM tires showed an 8.36 1/8 mile time. It's faster than it needs to be for trails.

 

torqueing the stock head bolts is not a hard job... i have no idea what they're seeing for cylinder pressures on the 4-6 AA tunes compared to stock, but if they're recommending it, and you're not doing it... you're playing with fire.

I see a lot of people saying they didn't do it to theirs, but that's no empirical data. you'll be pretty pissed if you lift the head and potentially ruin the block or the head surface. I ended up finding ARP bolts and changing them out completely, but to each their own.

 

Has anyone tried any other tuners? I see Bikeman has a kit as well as a garrett intercooler.

 

I've only used my tunes. I also run the Garrett intercooler from Bikeman.

 

Do you like it? its kinda pricey just wondering if its worth it?

 

The OEM cooler is probably the most efficient cooler. All the aftermarket are worse in heat transfer. Some are SIGNIFICANTLY better than others. I only got this due to the potential cracking of the OEM and that Garrett makes some of the best cores out there.

If the OEM wasn't known to crack, I would have kept it. My back to back runs showed the OEM slightly better than my Garrett/BC.