Mike's blog

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.

we got back to the speedshop and unloaded. got the sled inside and started checking out what was busted so we could order parts. at this point its 2 weeks until lincolns first race. heres the rundown of unusable parts, left and right trailing arms, left and right spindles, left and right skis, right carbide, stabilizer bar, left and right shocks, handlebars, steering post, windshield, headlight cover, console, buttrest, kickpan and taillight. the tunnel got a few dent but was usable. so first thing i did was order parts.

heres how it started. i worked very hard all summer to create one the best sleds that has ever left our shop. i made improvements like moving the front heat exchanger to the rear, 116" camoplast 9996 track (a $1044 value), pure teflon hyfax ($50ea uncut), lightweight accord racing razor studs (free :) ), 10t extrovert drivers, and more. heres where the problem occurs, last year we had test ice much sooner than usual. my sled had been done for 2 weeks and the ice was blown clean. we decided to go out to otis lake with some cones and do some testing.

id just like to take a moment to announce to you all that the #05 LMB Express sled is done. skis are on with the cnc cutting. suspension is in with the home made remote res installed. ready for laps on some ice. otis lake is almost good enough to ride on. im hoping to be there this saturday making laps. even have gas in the tank.

"the only way is all the way"