Posts by jookyone

Hey guys and gals, I appreciate the free word of mouth to my auction. I should have posted my many thanks here, as most of the OGs have made this forum their home. Apologies for the book, but it's a testament to how fondly I will remember this part of my life, and my need to express gratitude.

TL;DR -- I like you guys. I'm sad to see it go. It's fast and reliable. I hope the next owner gets a great deal. I hope to get to drive it to your house

The long version...
Here's the picture I took in the winter of 2014 while at the Polaris dealer looking for a snowmobile part. I wish I had video of my wife shaking her head, when I took her to see it a few weeks later and let her know I had put down a deposit.

In Colorado it had the performance of a Camry, but I didn't care, and we all figured out how to fix that. I was fortunate enough, even with a controversial turbo system, to have success building a high performing version of this wannabe race car, and make it feel like it looks. Maybe it was attention to detail, extensive testing, a week spent tuning with Bob in person, or possibly good ol' fashioned luck that granted me reliability, but I'll never regret the risk I took, and hopefully neither will it's next owner. There are a lot of great vendors out there, and I appreciate all of them for continuing to indulge that need for speed, and their quick-to-market invention of performance options, regardless of the end result. Like others who don't shy away from engine explosions, I would have tried anything to keep this go-kart-for-adults on the road. I applaud all of the gear heads who have not let their setbacks make them walk away from the Slingshot, but instead share their triumphs, tribulations, and expertise to the community in a positive way. A testament to the way this thing makes you feel like a kid again, and a desire from current owners to make that feeling live on for themselves as well as new drivers.

Enough reminiscing... I don't need or want to sell this, but the temptation to drive it, constant expression of concern by loved ones, and recent interest in road tripping from my children reduced the time I spent driving it. It's time to let it go. I've logged over 110,000 miles across two Teslas in 19 months. I hope this isn't taken as boasting, I grew up very poor around alcoholics and drug addicts, and had every statistical reason to fail. It took a vehicle that acts like a spaceship to garner interest from my wife and kids to be on the road, and I am not wasting the chance to live that with them, even if it took me out of the driver's seat of my Slingshot. I was diagnosed with epilepsy 5 years ago, proving to be a heavy handed reality that also kept me from driving the Slingshot as of late. I'm fortunate enough to be able to move on to a vehicle that has autopilot and allows me to drive with confidence that I won't hurt myself or others. An investment in the electric future with safety in mind was a no-brainer. We all live once, so make the most of it. I'm living proof, that with a little luck, a good work ethic, some patience, and surrounding yourself with great people, you just might make experiences that surpass anything you could have dreamed. For me, a part of that dream landed in the driver's seat of a Slingshot and I will never forget the amazing impact it had on my life.

After delaying my obligation to try selling every winter, with probably higher-than-market-value pricing for that time of year (to delay the inevitable), I've decided to give someone an opportunity to get a great deal, and hopefully feel the giddiness I had when I took my first ride. No regrets for whatever the final price ends up being. I hope the performance and reliability I've enjoyed continues for the next owner.

If the winner ends up being a member of the forum, I will gladly drive it to your front door to hand over the keys. Hopefully the next owner will need to accept my offer for in-person delivery, and I'll enjoy one last road trip in this Slingshot, if not only to confirm the reliability that I'm standing behind.

Thanks to everyone with whom I crossed paths, online or in person. I'll never forget it, and with luck, maybe we'll bump into each other someday.

Cheers,
Daniel aka jookyone

If anyone has positive feedback about recall service, might be nice to post here due to the thread title.

Got mine done in Greenwood Village, CO at Fay Myers Motorcycle World just south of Denver. Called, they ordered the parts ahead of time, and scheduled me, and I was in and out in a day.

Recalls performed:

• Headlight Jumper Harness Installation
• Fuel Line Replacement
• Steering Shaft Pinch Bolt and Set Screw Replacement
• Secondary Brake Bleed Procedure
• Swingarm Replacement

Thanks for the heads up @funinthesun sorry to hear about Stickerdicks motors... ouch! I think last time I was lurking around, he was working on a Honda powerplant?

I fill up at last bar, but well aware of lean conditions. I had Bob tune my Slingshot personally, and I've "padded" it rich at certain throttle points to account for how I drive. I monitor everything through my AEM failsafe, and haven't been on the track with it (yet) and typically don't blast away thru the mountains on low fuel. The fuel pump pulls from the rear of the fuel tank at the bottom, so you'd have to be pretty low to have a fuel slosh, assuming the tank actually holds 9.8 gallons of fuel and the 2+ gallons I've calculated after fuel light is actually in there somewhere (11 gallon volume, but you can see the shape wouldn't allow you to fill that much).

Before I boosted, I just happened to be the first one to get Bob's NA tune which I tested on a 6700 mile road trip immediately after (details on that other forum). It did solve a lot of fuel inconsistencies at the time and made it butter smooth, but also at the time, Polaris had not released their own updated fuel maps which came from a later dealer installed ECM update.

Nice to see that some people are experiencing fuel efficiency gains from it still. The visual map of the Polaris' first map looked like a porcupine.

@Ruptured Duck
I had only posted here in the very beginning of this website, and I may have had a hand in the logo design
Life is good, just lots of moving parts, so my Slingshot and I both kinda took a hiatus over the past year or so. My wife and I embraced the electric future and invested in severely overpriced and depreciating assets commonly known as Teslas. In an effort to get some return on investment, they do afford us the opportunity to drive all over the country with free supercharging and towing a popup, so for a family of four trying to live the dream, cheap transport and accommodations can't be beat. Just put the Slingshot on the backburner for a bit. Between the two, we have 95k miles in 17 months and my kids have been all across the country and Canada.

On topic with regard to fuel, my 30mpg in the Slingshot doesn't compare to the 95mpge of the Tesla, and the lack of towing and room for four was a hinderance as well despite my efforts to stack my family 3 high in the passenger seat. Will be interesting to see if the Sondors Electric Car comes to fruition ($10k+ electric 3 wheeler), or becomes a lost pile of money like the Elio. Polaris needs to get on this hybrid or electric thing so we aren't writing threads about fuel economy.

If you haven't seen the Sondors, interesting concept, I'm definitely interested.

That sounds terrible all of the gas mileage problems with forced induction. I'm turbo'd and still getting 30mpg, with 305hp to the wheel (at sea level, not sure here in CO). There are 8 bars on the fuel tank meter, fuel light comes on at around 7.5 gallons, so approximately 1 gallon/bar. I'm getting between 225 to 240 miles at fill up. I actually use the bars on the gauge to monitor fuel consumption (should be 30 miles per bar). Could be that here in CO,the ECU is reading less air and recalculating fuel consumption to be less (ECU is still closed loop), but pretty strange to hear everyone is getting crappy gas mileage. I don't remember what I was getting before being boosted.

(I'll try to get some pics on this tank)

I'm running Pirelli P Zero Nero. About 19k on the fronts. I'm on my 3rd rear, getting about 8k miles per rear tire. As others have said, there's not really a smoking gun for wet traction, just slow down, that's all you can do. I drive spiritedly with mostly back road miles. I always slow down for any amount of road water, it's very unpredictable.

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Here they talk about the tested limits of the 2.4L cast rods... GM attests that 283 is the very top limit of the rods

I am starting to think I'm the luckiest son of a bitch in the world... but I've been saying that for the last 20 years.

Thank you for all of the great information you've posted here and elsewhere. I hope you get a degree after you are done.

Glad you are ok @Tango, the Slingshot can be replaced. Only two things that can't be replaced are life and time itself. In due time, I hope to see you back on the road.

Cheers.

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Like you needed an introduction?

Well, I'm not a yellow motorcycle anymore, people may not recognize me.

Hi, my name is jookyone. Looking for a good community that has members that won't abandon me when I go out of town on business. I hear this site is the leader in Polaris Slingshot info. Looking forward to meeting each and every single one of you. Not even kidding, start sending me addresses. Donations get you bumped to the front of the line.

Cheers