Hi'yall. Put down a deposit on a new ZForce 800 Trail in St. George, UT. Cali prices are redonkulous. Paying quite a bit less in UT. I've been reading a ton of stuff about the breathing mods, and other things all of the members post about. Great info. My wife and I are avid rock hounds and in the winter one can usually find us out in the middle of the Mojave mining something cool out of the hills. We got a BMS Stallion 600 RX-EFI to up our game because our trusty and tough goto rockmobile, an old Gen I Xterra has its limitations. The Stallion is cool and all buuut, I needs a little more umpf and speed. My wife probably disagrees but hey, I make those all important, what goes in the garage decisions around here. With her permission of course. .
First place we're going after we pick it up is to Panguitch Lake and Brian Head then back down to Marysvale, UT. & Paiute Trail Country. I'm as stoked as an 8 yo on Christmas eve. Then its east to Green River for some rock hounding. I'm sure once I'm a bit familiar with the Z I'll begin making some Hillbilly rockhound-centric mods to it to fit our needs. I've already got my pizza box all lined up and ready for a temp breather mod for the Marysvale rides. I'll do a perm snorkel type mod for the Airbox and CVT routing them ala Azfireforge maybe trying the inside the cab routing. Our stomping grounds are not quite as dusty as some of these other places I read about. Peace out for now and thanks for all of the helpful info.

Welcome to the forum.  Enjoy the new machine as well as the rock hounding. 

[2015 Z Force 800 53/Trail EPS]

Welcome.

Well done! It was at Lizzie and Charlies in Marysvale UT where I did the pizza box intake mod to mitigate the dust issue.
Paiute Trails: Excellent and there's a few 50" max trail gates as well. 11450'!



Cut on the solid lines, fold the dotted lines and duct tape all seams and the big opening at the bottom. Perspective trick: The top fold and the top of the side folds are the same length, the top just looks shorter in the photo, if that helps.

Update on trip to Utah. A lot has transpired since then. Went on a biz trip to Panama. Got Covid from my biz partner / best friend. Prior to leaving Panama tested negative. Got home, gave it to my wife then both of us became symtomatic. We both got vaxxed in March.  Delayed Ut trip until we tested negative. Picked up the Z8 trail in St. George after a 6 hour drive. It was 117 at 4 pm🔥. Loaded it up in the toy hauler and headed up to 6500' Pine Valley Rec Area.  That was a treat. Breathtaking spot. Gods country. Rested, lollygagged, added goodies to the Z8 and performed the pizza box mod to the airbox (thanks glenlevit!) Moved on after 4 nights to Panguitch Lake. Rode a little break in time. Got familiar with the machine. Fished, more lollygagged with the Mrs and did some rock hounding in Blue Springs and BH Peak. Exceptional cool weather during an epic early SW heatwave. After 5 nights we moved on to South 40 RV Park in Marysvale. Wow. What an exceptional riding spot. Massive trail network of all types of terrain. Town is super ATV/UTV friendly. Machine ran great even at 10,000 feet up at the snowline. Cut trip short after 5 nights.  My biz partner / best friend in Panama succumbed to Covid complications and passed away. Very sad. I had to rush back to Panama. Stayed a month. Got him properly sent off to the afterlife, reorganized our company, and came home to my wife. What a whirlwind. The machine is blocked and strapped into the bed of my 2017 RAM Tradesman Crewcab pickup. 6 ft bed, tailgate down with assist bars and 3/4" sheet of plywood to the gate edge. 9 foot foldable Black Spider alum ramps. 1" to spare. Drove it this way 30 miles on a mountain road so its tried and true. It didn't budge. Backed it in. With rear tires against back of bed the bumper sits 5" from the rear window. Won't be transporting it this way much but wanted to see if it was possible in my truck if I had to. Some BLM/USFS RV parks won't let you drive your ATV out to adjoining trails.

[2015 Z Force 800 53/Trail EPS]

Wow...a lot went on. Sorry about your friend.

That sucks, sorry to hear about your friend. 

Thanks NMK and Mog. Didn't c ur post's. I suck at this forum stuff.

No worries.  I hope things are going better for you.