Something you may want to consider, can you mount your air intake somewhere else? The present location right behind the seat looks like it will easily get hit with your foot when hopping from one board to the other. Also, if you bail off the back, your butt is going to get hung up on it. It would suck to knock it off in deep, dry snow, lose it, and have to try riding out without a filter.
HYFLYR
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The air filter is in a great position. It is mounted to a flexible hose so that if and when it is kicked or bumped it will actually spring back to it's position, even when kicked, pushed or rolled 50 times. I have ran many turbo setups like this and setup all my customers turbo sleds with zero complaints. You want the filter high enough off the tunnel so it doesn't pull snow into it off the tunnel but also short enough so it isn't floppy, this is the method I Found to work best. Some ideas or opinions are better left unsaid is what my mom always told me, especially if you don't know what your talkin about.
Nikolai
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It's fastened with 8-32 stainless screws. I want to keep it removable in case I damage it and also so it can be powdercoated at a later date. It's not too difficult to get it behind the pyramid with the plastics off.
OVR4D said:Nice job Caleb. The steering post turned out to be more simplistic than I was thinking it would. I really like that your tie rods are above the lower A-arms.
Are you fastening that aluminum sheet with screws or rivets? How hard was it to get it to fit behind the pyramid in one piece?
Must be bittersweet to see it coming together and not be on the trip with Rick, but we all know that there are a million little details to work out and some things just can't be rushed. Your build quality is excellent, so why cut corners now. Anyway, Drew needs a riding partner so get-r-done!
So do I...
HYFLYR said:
Yeah, okay, whatever you say.
HYFLYR
TY 4 Stroke Guru
Not trying to take away from the thread but please akrider, do you really have any turbo sled experience? I think it's safe to say none of us up here value your opinion or care to hear it.
AKrider said:
Why are you still on TY?
Sportsterdanne
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Easy now guys.
I was thinking the same thing as Ak. But im glad i didnt write it
The mountain guys ar getting smaller and lower seats for each year. So its not such a strange thing to think that a airfilter sticking up behind the seat may be kicked around when jumping across the sled.
I rather have some comments to much with "bad" ideas than no comments at all because people who are not experts are not "allowed" to comment (a non expert may have a really good idea)
I was thinking the same thing as Ak. But im glad i didnt write it
The mountain guys ar getting smaller and lower seats for each year. So its not such a strange thing to think that a airfilter sticking up behind the seat may be kicked around when jumping across the sled.
I rather have some comments to much with "bad" ideas than no comments at all because people who are not experts are not "allowed" to comment (a non expert may have a really good idea)
Sportsterdanne
TY 4 Stroke Guru
double post.
Duey782
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Sportsterdanne said:
I was gonna say the same.. but I think there's more here than a simple question about filter location.
HYFLYR said:
What's with the attitude between you and rclofmn? I didn't cut anything down, heck from the very beginning I've always posted that I thought Nikolai's build was very impressive.
But why purposely put something right behind the seat where you are very likely to catch your foot on it every single time you hop from one running board to another? Why take of catching your foot, get off balance and roll your sled? In the mountains rolling your sled in some areas could mean totaling it. Besides that, a guy often has to bail off the back of the seat and I wouldn't want something sticking up to smack me in the balls when I bail off.
But by all means, question my experience and make my post out to be something it is not.
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You won't catch your foot. And even if you do, it's a flexible hose. Mine is the same and so is just about every rear-turbo in Revelstoke...and there are hundreds. No issues.
In the hills we often roll our sled over ONCE to get unstuck. It's a common deep powder "trick"...beats the heck out of shoveling out a 174" track....
In the hills we often roll our sled over ONCE to get unstuck. It's a common deep powder "trick"...beats the heck out of shoveling out a 174" track....
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and if you kick the airfilter you cleare it for snow. have my airfilter in the same place on my nytro mcx.
No worries than, forget I mentioned it. To me, looking at the picture, the filter looks closer and taller behind the back of the seat than other rear mount set ups I've seen. All I was thinking is maybe Nikolai wanted to consider moving the filter further away from its present location using a longer hose or something?
Just hate to see him get a foot briefly hung up on it when turning out at the top of a high mark, losing his balance and having the sled roll and tumble 100's of feet down a hard, wind packed slope.
Just hate to see him get a foot briefly hung up on it when turning out at the top of a high mark, losing his balance and having the sled roll and tumble 100's of feet down a hard, wind packed slope.
mike g
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AKrider said:
I like how you say 'forget I mentioned it' then try to justify it again. And who highmarks on 'hard, windpacked slopes'?