First off clutching is all centrifugal force pure and simple, a heavier flyweight acts on the movable sheave sooner and faster and yes it does give better acceleration but only for short distance. It also provides more belt grip down low too.
Take a five speed car, if you want to drag race you want to run through the gears fast you can get the best pull but imagine skipping 3rd and 4th gear going straight to 5th and what would happen?
This is what any kind of clutch set up does that advances the clutch at a fast rate on the bottom, no way to slow it down on the top. yes there are different weights out there that you can move the weight around on the flyweight but it has limited affect
The stock clutching in a 1000 rzr is great if you want to drag race but a properly clutched one will catch it very quickly and the stock one will never be able to keep up again.
So if you was a 1000 RZR owner who was interested in rock crawling or low speed riding, you could do the Dalton kit with the optional orange/green primary spring for a sooner engagement and more belt grip and even add more weight in the flyweights than the kit says, keep in mind the set ups are for over all improved performance.
Anything you do in one area is going to have an affect in another. More weight or any kind of weight that advances the belt fast will do great in low speed but suffer at mid to high speed. Why? Too heavy or designed with some physical attribute that makes it advance the belt fast and keeps rpm too low making the engine run in a area that produces less power and it advances the belt too fast then lugging occurs then more belt heat to go along with less than ideal performance mid to high speed.
The simple answer is, it is very hard to have your cake and eat it too. A slow driver, rock crawler or mud guy and duner simply needs two different set ups.
This is a bold statement, but there is NO one set up by anyone that will do both well. If they say it will, well then they are not being truthful.
What we do with the Dalton for the majority of the people is set it up for what most people want, overall improvement of performance and less belt usage. But you can surely set it up for exactly what area you spend your time at but it will have an affect in other areas when you do.
Think about it in terms of centrifugal force.
Think about this. Take a 1/2" nut and tie it on a string and a button and tie it on a string now the object is to get them to swing around flat which one takes the least effort? The heavy one. Now explain to me how you could make the nut fly out quickly then slow down mid way and slowly ease up to flat flying??
Can’t do it except by slowing down your arm (decrease in RPM). Using this simply explanation the best you can do to have it better in both is to use a weight on that string that is in between the nut and button. Then if you want less arm speed use the heavy nut, more arm speed use the button.
Hope this makes sense.
Todd
