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Allen and Roxanne Knowles enjoying their particular brand of family therapy.
COMPANY ...................................PRODUCT ....................................................PRICE
www.buckshotusa.com ............Roll cage ........................................................$2490
www.buckshotusa.com.............Front bumper ..................................................$475
www.buckshotusa.com............. Tire rack ...........................................................$375
www.proarmor.com ..................Sniper seats ................................................$399.95
www.proarmor.com ..................Safety harness ............................................. 124. 95
www.proarmor.com ..................Force steering wheel..................................$69.95
www.proarmor.com ..................Steering wheel hub (adapter) ..................$49.95
www.peputv.com.......................Complete set up for all four shocks .........$3100
www.ctracing.com.....................Radius light bar.........................................$499.95
www.dirtbagz.com .................... Tire tie-down strap...........................................$85
www.omfperformance.com.....NXG-1 series beadlock.......................$379.96/ea
www.teixteira.com.....................Front A-arms...................................................$395
www.teixteira.com .....................Radius arms ....................................................$570
well as a sleek look. Buck built the
front bumper as well. It has two small
LED lights on it, which are pointed
out and down. This front bumper will
also hold a 20-inch radius LED if you
have the need to spend a few extra
dollars.
The doors are among the best
we’ve seen for the 1000. Buckshot
designed them to open car-style, with
the hinges in front. This way, if the
door isn’t latched properly, it can’t
swing open and get torn off, as it
happens with suicide doors. Buck
Buckshot made these scoops to allow
more air into the CVT case for cooler
belt operation.
finished its part of the project with a
couple of nice fiberglass trinkets for
the car, a set of scoops to bring in
extra-cool air to keep the belt cooler,
a spare tire rack that doesn’t use up
the entire bed, and a nice-looking
fiberglass hood.
If you own a RZR, you already
know that the stock seats are oddly
out of step with the rest of the
machine. They need to be upgraded before embarking on a 20-mile
adventure—forget about a 100-miler.
Allen installed Pro Armor Sniper sus-
pension seats as an essential part of
the marriage therapy program. Pro
Armor also makes some of the most
comfortable safety harnesses on the
market, with nice shoulder padding
and small pockets built into the front
that will hold things like small flash-
lights, cell phones or whatever. These
are 3 inches wide and come as a five-
point harness. For recreational use,
they don’t run the crotch sections,
using them as four-point harnesses.
Of course, suspension itself is
important too. Most people assume
that the 1000’s Walker Evans shocks
are already the best stuff available.
But, Polaris doesn’t have any way of
knowing how much you load down
your RZR, how hard you drive or what
kind of terrain you have. Customizing
the suspension always pays divi-
dends. PEP does that and has some
tricks to upgrade the internals of the
Walker Evans shocks beyond the fac-
tory Polaris specs. Teixeira Tech built
tough, strong, chromoly, high-clear-
ance A-arms. The front arms are a
gusseted gull-wing design, very sim-
ilar to products that Teixeira builds
for ATVs. The rear radius rods are
another issue. Many companies build
the radius rods out of bent, thick-wall
chromoly tubing, then add gusset-
ing. Ed tested these back on the XP
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