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Outlander max xt 850 fuel economy?

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Was interested in seeing what kind of numbers folks have been getting off their machines? I am running 91 octane non ethanol fuel and plan to only run this fuel. If anyone has any experience and numbers, would be great
 
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I can tell you it's all in how you drive it, where you drive it and how heavy thumbed you are. My 650 easily used to get 200-225 miles to a tankful, I upgraded to a big bore 850 kit, mild cam upgrade, maverick heads, throttle body, pipe etc, and even with a **** secondary helix allowing a lot of belt slip and excessive rpm at prime cruising speeds I am still getting over 150 a tank. New helix is enroute so, we will see how much better it gets lol.

One ride that shocked me was we had a 100 miles of trail riding thru gnarly terrain one night, I was in low range for most of it, until it was time to head home, I switched to high after we hit the easy trails/dirt roads to head home and just dropped to 3/8s of a tank on pulling into the driveway. I was stunned, seemed like low range allowed for typical better mileage in rough stuff (like 25mph and under trails) than high range did, because the throttle inputs were so small.
 
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Not sure about the smaller can am's but on my old cat I could get about 225 miles per tank... the new 850 I will be pushing to get 150 and that's with it filled to the top of the neck

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