I'll say you won big. Congrats on the goodies, I think this means you have to get a SXS now.

Lanse, Jared, my buddy says thanks for the drawing for the Pitbull Tires...dang, if only I had bought 5 more tickets, that would've been my number...

Awesome Rally guys...it was great meeting everyone, even if the Killer Kitty didn't make it's showing there. Coreshot, it was good having you ride and guide on Gold Bar/ Golden Spike, thanks.

No bind so far. I'm running these at the very close to the same travel and angle range that the new Wildcat will be at. Plus the arms are 5 inches longer on each side, so that helps.
But if they do give me problems, I'll put in 930 CV's with race hubs.

Okay, guess I can pass on some specs for you guys.
It has no name yet, but at the dealer show, Wildcat was the most popular.
Tube chassis, long travel trailing arm rear, front A-arm setup. It does have doors.
It has 16-17 inches wheel travel (has 30 inch long reserviour shocks std), wheelbase is lengthened from previous chassis'. Width is 64 inches. Uses an HO version of the H2 V-Twin motor. It has about 95+hp, weighs less than a RZR XP900. Factory Dual exhaust. It is built for the desert southwest and dune guys. This in not a prototype machine, it will be fully in production in the next 60-90 days and is slated to be released to dealers after the late summer dealer show. But there is some grumbling that it may not fully hit dealers till January.
Arctic Cat did this pre-release teaser to catch the attention of those that would be buying the RZR XP900, as AC is squarely aimed for it.....(AC knew about the XP last year and made sure this machine would beat it in all categories.....even price, $15900).

As for reliability, I have run the hell out of 3 different Prowlers and had very little problems. Some guys have had problems, but no more than what my RZR buddies have had. And AC is using parts that they have had several years to test and improve.

This thing is wild, fast and handles like a dream.

By the way, have you seen the new Arctic Cat Logo....

And the latest is, just ordered new 2.0 27 inch long King Off Road Racing Shocks to replace the 19 inch OEM replacements. The new shocks will be mounted to allow 18 inches of travel front and rear (max the cv's can really take). Sold my other Kings. Best damn shocks I've found out there.
Got the new Optima Yellow Top ready to go in and start rewiring the car. Having the radiator custom built to keep the machine cool, it'll be mounted above the fuel cell and the new airbox is being built and will be installed under the front hood (hood scoop will be functional) as well as take a scoop of air from the front grill.

More pics...

Nick checking out the fit while I take a break...he works hard, kept me going...

Front superstructure in. Ready to have the suspension cut out and rebuilt...

Ed checking fenderside fit while Nick welds

Boxed frame sections

Well, it's finally coming together. I had to scrap what someone else had built on it and start over.
It has 216ft of 1.75X.095 4130 Chromemoly and some DOM. Stands 65 inches tall when at 13 inches ground clearance. Wheelbase will be stretched 3 inches rear and 1 inch front when the new J-Arms are installed (+5 each side). The fuel cell is just sitting on the old chassie bed mount right now, but will be 10 inches lower when installed. I have to finish the rear suspension shock mounts before I can cut out the rear shock towers and install the cell.
The driver's compartment is stretched a little to accomodate the lowered seating arangement. Width of the actual chassis is very close to OEM, in fact, I will be able to use the OEM Floor and dash. The frame was cut down to just the 2 main tubes and A-Arm mount tubes. Everything from there up is Chromemoly except for a few non-critical tubes. The door bars will go in once we get the chassis welded up further.
The new air cleaner system is going to be under the hood with a functional hood scoop. The Optima battery will be under the hood also. An alternator is being installed on the driveshaft. The front floor wall panels are interchangeable with lexan panels for rock crawling and KOH so that you can look through the front floor wall and see the tires. But for desert, sheetmetal will be in place.
Not to mention the engine and clutching work going on, it'll have a top speed upwards of 95mph. Suspension travel is over 15inches front and rear.

I want to give a HUGE PROPS and THANK YOU to Johnny and Eric from UTV INC. Their help was awesome. Eric took my design and converted it to computer layout, then the UTV Inc crew cut and bent the tubes quickly and with perfect accuracy.
You guys ROCK!!!

We are going to try and have the car ready for the Whiplash Snowflake race, then run the Fall AZ ShortCourse Series. Then next year will be a full BITD run as well as a run at the King Of The Hammers Race.

I'll keep everyone posted as it goes..here are some photos showing the mockup of the seats and body panels. Door bars and lots of bracing still to be added, as is the custom built +5 J-Arm suspension.

Running a modded XTZ 951cc motor. Getting some clutch work done so it'll hook up stronger on the bottom end and run out higher on the top, keeping the rpms up around 8500 under full throttle. Won't have the 116mph top speed that an SR1 acheived at the Snowflake Race last weekend, but will be around 100 we hope.

Should have the new 300M axles for it in a couple of weeks and putting on longer travel King Racing Shocks to yield about 18"+ travel. That's about all I care to push the cv's.

Body skins and roof should be on in another week as will be the wiring, harnesses and fuel lines.

Then starts the task of testing and making any changes. We are looking to run King Of The Hammers in february, select BITD races and if SNORE opens up a UTV class, that. May make a few short course race in AZ too.