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My name is Chris Rademacher from Fort Collins, Colorado, where I work for Enterprise Fleet Services.
I bought my RANGER used, but I currently use Nature Coast Motorsports for all the parts, and do all the labor myself.
As far as customizations, I’ve done the following:
• Lock & Ride Cab: I applied custom noise-deadening material to quite it down.
• Warn 4.0 Multi-mount winch with custom remote winch mount in the bed to keep it up out of the elements when not in use.
• Polaris Bed Extenders, which is what the winch mounts to along with a 4' high lift jack.
• Dynojet Power Commander to adjust the fuel to the optimum level.
• Custom snorkeled intake with K&N filter, which required moving the entire bed back about 3-4" so I could sneak the intake tubing in between the bed and cab.
• Custom adjustable exhaust and modified exhaust manifold gasket.
• Innovate Wide Band O2 sensor to make sure I've got optimum AFR's, because I typically ride between 7,000-12,000 feet of elevation in the mountains of Colorado and the stock ECU runs lean.
• Hot Seat Performance 3.5 degree timing key.
• Hotcams Mud Buster Cam.
• Veypor VR2 to track RPMs, speed and other dynamometer readings, making it easy to test new modifications.
• Polaris Sportsman 700 Clutch Belt, which helps lower RPM engagement and top end by 1-3 mph, because it's .25" shorter.
• Polaris White Spring to achieve a slightly higher engagement RPM and low- to mid-RPM acceleration.
• I currently have 27" ITP 589s, but [planned to soon mount] the new 29.5" Interco Swamplites.
• Aftermarket front lights.
• Custom-welded gussets on the front a-arms for additional strength along with custom 1/8" plated a-arms to withstand harder hits in the rocks, including removable CV guards.
• Front Gorilla Axles.
• ITP aluminum wheels.
• 1/4" front wheels spacers to clear the new 29.5" Swamplites from the tie rod boot.
• A Polaris Sportsman 700 ECU to achieve the 6500 RPM rev limiter, more aggressive timing and fuel curves.
Every riding trip is a great experience! I used to wheel a Toyota 4Runner, but my wife was too scared to ride in it because of the level of trails we'd run. So, after years of pouring hard-earned money, time and effort modifying it up to run the harder trails, I decided to sell it and buy something my wife and I could enjoy together with our dogs.
The RANGER is a perfect machine for this. We can use the current bed extenders and put our four dogs in the back, a custom rack I made behind that and head off into the woods with extra gas and food for all of us. It doesn't get any better than that.
The RANGER has been marketed well to the utility markets, such as hunting, farming/ranching, etc., but I believe Polaris [should market it more to the sport rider market]… In my opinion, with only a few factory changes, the RANGER could easily be a way better machine than the Rhino… Polaris could not only have the hardest working, smoothest riding [vehicle], you could also have the toughest, hardest playing side-by-side out there as well.
– Chris Rademacher
Fort Collins, Colorado
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