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after months of building, designing, staying up late, and sleepless nights, the Flannery Motorsports Polaris CFI is up and running. tons of improvements this year. new high rpm single pipe for the end of race grunt that others wont have. redesigned front end to drive around the corners effortlessly. beefed up precision chassis and relocation of some under the hood items for a better more user friendly engine bay. dont get me wrong the stuff is still packed in there tight like sardines, with more wires than the space shuttle.

dynoing is now on New years day

fuel rail is done and pressure checks. motor is done, ecu is at polaris. all we need is two special fittings and the motor is in. dave is finishing the coolant lines this week. we should be dyno ready bey next weekend if the ecus come back. we will be ordering dyno fuel this week ;)

polaris released some new angled carb boots for the cfi in '09 so we took advantage of them. the new boots angle the carbs upward. no big deal right? wrong! the new boots allowed us to lower the back of the motor 1.5". lower CG is a BIG deal. since the motor and carbs were moved the end result is a redesigned airbox. we took all of our years experience and made the best one yet. we ran the jackshaft throug it and redirected the air inside of it. now lets see what the dyno says....

been working on the sled for a while now and i thought you would like to be brought up to speed. Dustin at SLP the man! he got us quite a few of "non inventory items" this year. we started with a stamped wye pipe and clamshells. we have spent quite a bit of time removing any imperfections and fitting the pipe to our lowered motor. after dyno tuning we will be getting the pipe ceramic coated. we are hoping for 140+hp. we had 138hp last year on our stock pipe.

Before the last race of the year we did a complete overhaul of the #5 enduro sled to prep it for the biggest race of the year. We also sent the motor out to Doug Flannery for some modifications.  Sled was prepped and ready.  Sprints on saturday had a big showing of champ and mod sleds so we didn't fair as well with our stocker and enduro sled in the open sprint class.  Eric did take home first in both of his heats as well as a main event win in the Limited 600 Class.  Kevin qualified our enduro sled on the outside of the front row.  Only 19 thousandths of a second out of first.

We finished and fired the sled the saturday night before we left.  We decided to load it up and take it out to gunlake on sunday to do some drag racing with it and dial the power commander fuel curve in as close as possible.

Monday-Went over the sled and made sure every nut and bolt was tight

Tuesday-Started Qualifying and found out that the motor wouldn't rev past 8000rpm, which is a big problem when your peak HP is at 8600rpm.

Wednesday-Handling is good but still no MPH and no RPMs after trying almost everything in the book.

Ice is here and our fleet is at 2/3rds strength.  Last saturday we brought the #5 and #05 out to GunLake to make some practice laps.  The #05 is still as fast as ever ticking off 85mph on the little track.  We chased our tails for a while with the #5 sled just to find out we were using a bent carbide runner that wasn't biting into the ice.  Todd Krikke was out making laps as well so we got some more pointers from him on setup and riding style which is always a bonus.  And we have witnesses to the fact that todd was indeed passed.  :)  We will be back out there this weekend gettin