Need help with Kawasaki

[quadridermx]

I wasn't quite sure where to put this, so I figured the open forum would work.

Here's the problem... A friend of mine recently bought a 2000 Kawasaki Prairie 300 4x4. It is in mint shape and starts up as soon as the button is pushed. It accelerates smoothly and runs perfect, but it's so freakin slow!

Top speed is about 30 on it. Is there some kind of restriction that this model may have? We're talking granny slow. It has lots of torque and runs perfect but is so incredibly slow that I cannot express it with words! :confused2

The throttle stop is set all the way out... but it still seems that it accelerates the same at 1/4 throttle as it does at full throttle. You can be cruisin at a blazingly fast 30 mph at full throttle, let the throttle all the way back to about 1/4 and there is no difference.

Any ideas would be appreciated. It is all stock and in perfect working order. Is the machine actually supposed to be that slow?

[rigged400ex]

ya there is a problem ....... its a utility:rolleyes:

[quadridermx]

Lol, that's true...

But a 250r wouldn't haul a boat back to a lake or plow snow very well...

He doesn't plan on anything sporty, but it just seems like the top speed should be faster than a mini quad. I was thinking it would be somewhere around 40.

[bansheerider_13]

im guessing that is the top speed and nuttins a matter with it

[ridesa02400EX]

the answer to this problem is that its a kawasaki thats why it is so slow

[KevinM]

If its an auto, which I assume it is, its possible someone had the secondary clutch off and incorrectly set the pretension when they re-installed it. If its set wrong, the belt won't ride right on the pulleys and power will be nonexistent.

Honda owners calling Kawi's slow? Yeah right.

[02Yellow400]

No my girlfriends dad has the same quad. And yes thats as fast as it goes. Those things are so freaking slow. There not even that good for climbing long hills cause the engine is to small for that much of a machine. But they run well and do there job. But yeah at the most you might see 35 mph out of them.

[kawasaki_ridah]

Originally posted by ridesa02400EX
the answer to this problem is that its a kawasaki thats why it is so slow

lmao seems my 400 is faster than your 400, and a 650 prairie is faster thand a rincon a mojave is faster than a 300 ex a prairie 400 is faster than a forman 450 and almost fast than the rubicon the lakoyta is faster than the 250 ex i know all of this from exsperience seems kawie is faster. but all the hondas are good quads and very very reliable but they are still slower than a kawasaki

[Leo]

Originally posted by kawasaki_ridah
lmao seems my 400 is faster than your 400,

You don't have a Kawasaki my boy, you have a Suzuki.

Wanna race?

:D

Leo

check the breaks out, clean your air filter, make sure the choke is off..stuff like that

[KevinM]

Originally posted by Leo
You don't have a Kawasaki my boy, you have a Suzuki.

Wanna race?

:D

Leo

Yeah, I'd love to.;)

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[HondaRancherES]

utility's aren't made for speed. They are made for mud and crawling through stuff. I have a 2002 Rancher ES 2x4 and it only goes 55 on a good day. Everyday speed is 45

[ridesa02400EX]

lol vforce and scrambler ill race ya anyday

[KevinM]

Yeah right, a 440 against a 700 twin, plus the Scrambler has about 2K in the motor and will easily beat the Kawi, much less a little Honda 4-stroke.

[ridesa02400EX]

im talkin on a track not drag race 90% rider you could have all of the power in the world but you gotta be able to handle that power

[kawasaki_ridah]

Leo we will race haha, and that v force would tear you up dawg :p