I had mine out this week with a couple friends and it goes good. I have the 141 with the 2.25 attack 20 track and I still got 95mph. the other sleds were an 04 F7 and a 04 Zr900. We would run close to the same top end...infact in the short run the M7 is faster. I bought Dalton 75gr wieghts from the ODS and the rest was stock.. I have since cut my track 3/4 of an inch ( cut the part that folds over) so it will hook up. I only have 17 miles and running oil in the fuel so when this sled breaks in It will be a rocket. This whole sled is so much better than the F series in every department its going to be a pleasure to ride.

What's the real scoop on the M series sleds? I was told that they need to be run in powder to cool the machine properly. One dealer told me the "M" sleds are NOT made for trail riding.

I sure like the looks and the wider track. Any feedback from anyone?

are you sure you have a M chassie? cous they don't come in 144".

as for the question about cooling: they just like any other sled, as long as there is snow on the coolers your fine. the trick w/ any long track is to run ice scratchers.

Yeah He has a M I was just checking one out for myself But I think he meant 141" ! They definately are one SWEET sled.

damn, good top end yet


I need to be getting one next year

Sled... I'm from Saskatoon. Originally from Regina.

Where were you riding? Did you have any heating problems? And isn't the Heat exchanger in the Running Boards??


I'm torn between a F7 SP or the M7? How was the handling?

Thanks
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no the exchangers are not in the running boards and their is no sway bar on the m so it might not be as good on the trails also the ecu brain boxes are setup up to run 5000 feet and above any lower and you could see some problems

Assembled a 6 and 7 this week, all thats required is the weight changes,the ecu will take care of its self,after all it is efi. :div20: c-note

never mind not thinking about efi only problem is with the 500 jetting changes thanks for straighting me out

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never mind not thinking about efi only problem is with the 500 jetting changes thanks for straighting me out

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I thought the M series was Mountain specific in every way, or that is what people are saying but then people talk about chosing between an F cat and M cat, when there supposedly two COMPLETELY different sleds, F-Cats are trail specific, and M's are for mountains, I hear the rider forward position is nice however are they going to develop trail friendly M? I also think it would be smarter to make the M5 with the F5 Powerplant instead of the weak 80HP of the Sabercat 500.

[quote=Indy600XcSp,Nov 2 2004, 02:46 PM]
[quote=derrek,Oct 29 2004, 11:27 PM]
I also think it would be smarter to make the M5 with the F5 Powerplant instead of the weak 80HP of the Sabercat 500.

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The point of the 80 HP motor is to provide a sled that is for the beginner or the less intense rider, while still being in the same class to compete with the other fan cooled and low performance mountain sleds. If it had the firecat 500 motor, then the same problem would come up as now: not very many F-5s are moving when a 600 with EFI and 15 HP more is priced almost comparably.

Besides that, the M-5 is replacing the mountain cat 570, not the old mountain cat 500.

Rode with a guy couple weekends ago when central ND had good snow.. he was runnin a M7 141 in the ditches. i asked him when we got to the next stop if he was overheating at all and he said surprisingly im not im juss stayin off into the powder once in a while... as far as how fast the M7 was... when i had my 03 F7 sno pro with the only mod of a MBRP can... we took off and it was close out of the whole but in the long run i ran away from him.

I love my M6 141. It is a great trail sled kinda a biatch in the woops but starting to get that is figured out.
I am in Ontario and there is not any mountians nere me. I never had any cooling problems at all and just flipped my track to hill climb. The track is like running big ass mudders on the hwy.
I have a set of extra 63 and 70 gram weights and a stock yellow spring with 100Km on them. The 63 weight have no Km on them. They were in it stock and because we are making so much more power down here I am up to a 72 gram in it now and 2.5 lock to lock turns up on the secondary. About on hole tighter on the old type sec.
I have a custom helix comming that is 38-44-48.
It trys to pull your arms off now. Oh these things are fun.
With the weight down low it is like a little foot ball. If the snow is 16" you can lay it on its side a pin it and it will sping like a top right on its side.
It has 8" rear wheel and the cross over sled has the little pittly ones. I can push my sled on the floor of the shop.

It gets a two thumbs up from me.

Oh ya one more thing. The tunnel has billet aluminum for the rails. It is rivited on the formed tunnel. The cooling tubes are up on the inside of the tunnel in the corners. Think if the rails were warm and you hit big powder then they iced up......how much drag that would put on the sled. Have you ever had an old steel ski frost up?

The sides comming off to get at the clutches is great. The easyest sled to work on.




No bar riser needed it is built in. The fire cats need them if your over 5 foot 11.