Hurricane turbo air intake problem

[Wapbuck1]

I have a 190HP Hurricane turbo kit installed on my Viper and am having snow problems on the intake filter inside the engine bay. After a short ride, the filter is caked with snow and soaked! It robs the power to the point it will barely pull itself along a trail. In powder it is a real issue. The sled is almost unridable. Does anyone know if there is a relocation kit for this turbo kit to get the intake out of the hood? I believe my problems would be solved then.

 

[kodak]

I put 2 small frogskinz in side panel in front of intake did not fix the problem doing powder turns but clears up quicker when I straighten up trying not to go out the hood because my sled tends to end up on its side fairly often when playing hard I think a vent or mesh to cover that gaping hole that acts like a shovel would help a lot like they have on the other side.

 

[tator]

did you put on the new rubber that came with the kit around the exhaust outlet? without it the gap is large and snow gets in easily.

 

[kodak]

Mine came with it

 

[Blackstar]

I PM'd Dave about this. Having the same problems with my trail version. He says he has a new prefilter coming for next fall.

As a temp fix, I going to put some additional foan around the front of the filter to stop the snow that's coming in through the gaps in the bodywork.

 

[Wapbuck1]

I have installed the rubber gasket around the exhaust outlet. It is coming in from the radiator vent on top of the hood i believe. This needs to be plumbed outside the engine bay in order to correctly fix this problem.
Any help is appreciated.

 

[stingray719]

Our normally aspirated Viper will die if pushing snow over the headlight as it covers enough of the vent holes to choke the engine. Something to consider.

 

[Bdumur]

Had the same problem , I added frog skin to every opening that was possible with out solving the problem, another problem was my that my intake air temp was ridiculous high, robbing me of all the Hp that I had added, I considered all the known intake air options, my riding style was that of extreme carving in both directions so the intake exiting on either side of the hood I did not consider the best option, I could imagine driving that "snorkel looking" option into the ground / snow as I turned sharply to the left or right, I had to find better way, here is what I've done , the intake route and cutting of the plastic that I've done was to solve all of my concerns, pictures attached and more available if your interested , I'm running a Hurricane Turbo with extensive mods to the engine , Im set up to pull your arms from the sockets when you pull the trigger, going straight up is what I'm after, hopefully there is a hill in my way

 

[HURRICANE]

We have the cold air intake option this year to put the air filter along side the windshield.This was developed for the guy's that are riding in deep snow

 

[tator]

bdumur. I like your design and looks. what plastic was needed to be cut out? i take it some on the hood? some more pics would be nice. also what did you use for tubing?

 

[Joshua]

Dave needs to come up with a cold air intake without cutting the hood

 

[Bdumur]

Tator: a few more pictures, the plastic I cut was from the underside in front of the headlight (marked with white marker in the picture) this so I could create a path for the 2" flexible tubing (yep thats a hand sticking up thru the path in the picture) would fit up thru the grate area between the steering column and the factory gages, once I had the path and aluminum flex tubing cut and fitted I covered the tubing and the hose connection at the turbo with 3" 3M shrink tubing, this made the tubing more rigid, sealed it and bonded the metal flex tubing to the rubber tube at the turbo , I still need to welded clips to the aluminum Hurricane manifold to secure the intake tubing to it, the first self adhesive ones I tried just weren't strong enough.

With the incredible HP that the Hurricane system adds one can also expect heat, so to try and help this out I coated the header to the turbo and any flashing with Jet Hots ceramic high temp coating , blue of course.

 

[Jman345]

Do you have a list of parts needed, looking to build one like this

 

[Bdumur]

Jman345 Im going to assume that you have a Hurricane turbo kit, to get the elbow off the turbo intake I went to an automotive store, routed thru piles of rad hoses that matched the intake size of the turbo, look for hoses with at least a 45 and 90 deg turns in them , it will help with the fitup, the turn upward from the turbo is a tight squeeze on the body plastic, be prepared to remove a bit of the plastic to avoid contact with the elbow, the flex tubing I used was Stainless exhaust flex tubing, if you can find aluminum even better, muffler shops will sell this stuff, you'll need aprox 36" of it , the od of this flex tubing will fit snuggly inside the elbow from the rad hose that you have roughly fit to the intake of the turbo, find a electrical supply house that carry the 3M shrink tubing, it shrinks quite a bit

 

[Bdumur]

Jman345, its the last thing to go on as it makes the flex tubing much stiffer and seals it air tight to the elbow off the turbo, from my previous pictures you can see where I cut the plastic in the headlight area, you will also see how the tube rests on the intake box, In this area I used the protective mesh that was on my rad hose to protect the airbox and intake hose from damaging each other, what you don't see from my pictures is that I welded 2 clips to the air-box to hold it place with rubber straps, (I stole them from my wife's Honda quad, they held the tool kit in place), local honda dealers can order them there about 3" long with d rings on each end , don't rivet the clips in place , drilling to this box will put metal chards into the box and then into the engine, find a good aluminum welder that can tack them into place, use 2 straps it holds the tube in place much better.
The black plastic mesh (at steering column) hole was accomplished by heating up a hole saw and melting my way thru, much neater hole this way. if you need more pictures I can pull the hood off and give you close ups. Couple of things you will notice, intake air is much cooler, 50 degrees in my case = more power, the intake is now out of the hot muffler area, no more steam bogging ever. The turbo spooling noise is much more noticeable when you pull the trigger and you can hear it wind-down on shut down. I stand a lot when I ride, the foam intake filter has no adverse effect on me seeing the stock gage cluster, besides Im trying to hang on to this beast, looking down is not advisable. Hope this has helped