I am looking for input. I am looking for a new ute and am trying to find out if the Griz with power steering is as good as the reviews say. I want more power than i have now and just trying to get some input wether i should lean towards the power steering option. Thanks for anythng you can tell me.
Is power steering worth it?
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My opinion it is well worth it. I have ridden a lot of different quads and there are a lot of quads out there that I have had my eye on, but I can honestly say that until they come out with power steering options I am sticking with my Grizzly. It is literally a dream to ride. Not the most powerful, but it does extremely well.
I didn't think it would make much difference boy was I wrong. I ride alot of tight trails .mud and cross creeks and it is a world of difference if you are looking just to go fast save your money and go without power steering but if you like to spend all day and not be sore go for it. I will never buy another quad without eps.
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I won't have one without EPS personally. I'll give a couple of examples for EPS:
My father-in-law, an older gent in his 60's, has a honda, non-EPS machine. Had it for a few years. A couple years back, had shoulder surgery, which then started to play a toll on his riding capability even just cruising around. After riding for a couple of hours, his arm hurt so bad that he was in horrible pain for days. After riding mine with EPS, he was sold. Went an got a new Grizz700 just cuz of EPS, not cuz he needed power. He can ride now and not be soar afterwards.
A friend of mine has a Grizz660. When he locks in 4wd diff lock, it's all he can do to steer it. We were doing some heavy-duty riding a couple of weeks ago in a top-of-the-wheel deep sand bottom creek. I ran the entire day in 4wd. Mentioned at one point I was in diff lock and he said crap, I can't do it except in a straight line b/c it's just too hard to steer. I was running in diff lock mode and steering with one hand most of the time with no effort whatsoever.
You get my point: EPS is the only way to go. I would sacrifice power for power steering. If Kawaski would release a Brute with power steering and improve handling (from what I've been told), then it would probably be my next quad.
Buster
My father-in-law, an older gent in his 60's, has a honda, non-EPS machine. Had it for a few years. A couple years back, had shoulder surgery, which then started to play a toll on his riding capability even just cruising around. After riding for a couple of hours, his arm hurt so bad that he was in horrible pain for days. After riding mine with EPS, he was sold. Went an got a new Grizz700 just cuz of EPS, not cuz he needed power. He can ride now and not be soar afterwards.
A friend of mine has a Grizz660. When he locks in 4wd diff lock, it's all he can do to steer it. We were doing some heavy-duty riding a couple of weeks ago in a top-of-the-wheel deep sand bottom creek. I ran the entire day in 4wd. Mentioned at one point I was in diff lock and he said crap, I can't do it except in a straight line b/c it's just too hard to steer. I was running in diff lock mode and steering with one hand most of the time with no effort whatsoever.
You get my point: EPS is the only way to go. I would sacrifice power for power steering. If Kawaski would release a Brute with power steering and improve handling (from what I've been told), then it would probably be my next quad.
Buster
I've had both the Grizzly 660 without power steering, and the Grizzly 700 with power steering. I'm not sure the power steering version of the Grizzly 700 is all that big of an improvement over the non power steering version of the Grizzly 700, because I haven't rode a non power steering version of the Grizzly 700. But I am sure that a Grizzly 700 with power steering is a huge improvement over the Grizzly 660. The whole machine feels much more balanced, feels more sure footed and stable, and has significantly better handling. It is smoother, quieter, and more responsive.
We bought a 2007 Grizzly 700 with EPS in August of 2006, and really liked that ATV. At the time I had a 2006 YFZ 450, and the Grizzly 700 was for my wife. But I rode her Grizzly as much or more than I rode my YFZ, so one year later we sold the YFZ. At that time I could have bought any big bore utility ATV I wanted, and I looked at Can-Am Outlander 800s and Renegade 800s, and the Brute Force 750, and test rode all of them at local dealers. In the end I bought another 2007 Grizzly 700 with EPS for myself. The only difference is that mine is the special edition silver Grizzly, so its faster than my wife's camo Grizzly. I was impressed enough with the handling, steering, and overall great terrainability of the Grizzly 700 with EPS that I bought another one.
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We bought a 2007 Grizzly 700 with EPS in August of 2006, and really liked that ATV. At the time I had a 2006 YFZ 450, and the Grizzly 700 was for my wife. But I rode her Grizzly as much or more than I rode my YFZ, so one year later we sold the YFZ. At that time I could have bought any big bore utility ATV I wanted, and I looked at Can-Am Outlander 800s and Renegade 800s, and the Brute Force 750, and test rode all of them at local dealers. In the end I bought another 2007 Grizzly 700 with EPS for myself. The only difference is that mine is the special edition silver Grizzly, so its faster than my wife's camo Grizzly. I was impressed enough with the handling, steering, and overall great terrainability of the Grizzly 700 with EPS that I bought another one.
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I have a 03 Grizz 660, I run tracks in the winter .... and I'm looking at putting power steering on my Grizz somehow. So with tracks & the diff lock thing ..... well ... :sad2:
If I was in the market for a new machine ... if it didn't have PS it wouldn't be on my wish list. :nono:
Buy the Grizz 700 with EPS .... you'll never be sorry .... only grinn'in from ear to ear when rid'in !!!! :cheer:
Oh yeah .... let us know when ya pick it up !!!! :icon_thumleft:
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If I was in the market for a new machine ... if it didn't have PS it wouldn't be on my wish list. :nono:
Buy the Grizz 700 with EPS .... you'll never be sorry .... only grinn'in from ear to ear when rid'in !!!! :cheer:
Oh yeah .... let us know when ya pick it up !!!! :icon_thumleft:
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If I were starting fresh with performance mods, my first two would be a sheave and a CDI box for the most noticeable difference. If I HAD to pick between the two, I would probably go with the sheave first b/c of what all you gain from it, then as quick as I could, add the Dyna CDI and even a coil kit if you could afford to do it.
Just my 2 pennies worth.
Buster
Just my 2 pennies worth.
Buster
This where we'll all disagree. LMAO
I say ride it for a while before you start adding mods. See what you like and don't like and go from there.
Performance wise, I've liked my pipe, filter, and fuel controller more than my CDI. I can't say anything about the sheave as I haven't tried that yet.
I say ride it for a while before you start adding mods. See what you like and don't like and go from there.
Performance wise, I've liked my pipe, filter, and fuel controller more than my CDI. I can't say anything about the sheave as I haven't tried that yet.
Tough call. I ran a Dobeck GenII with no pipe or filter mods for over a year. The bike ran great and per the research I did it helped cure the lean condition the bike has in stock form. In theory it should have lowered operating temps. I can't say I felt a power difference. neither did I test the temp decrease, but overall the bike ran great with it.
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