Prefiltering Viper Vents - Anyone do it?

[Yellowknife]

Same old story for me with various makes/models - riding at -30 to -40, snow in Yellowknife is very dry and granular like sugar. It gets through every crack and hole in the frame, let alone any open vents and then freezes my steering.

I want to cover up the exhaust vent opening on the right side panel (the triangular hole that has no screen on it in front of the muffler) with some kind of screen or prefilter material that will allow air through but not any snow.

I also want to do the same thing to the massive vents on the hood in front of the radiator between the headlight assembly and the nose of the machine.

Before I go experimenting with sheets of prefilter or frogzskin, has anyone tried anything yet? I'm aware that I will have to carefully watch underhood heat, but I keep blowing out steering boots ingesting too much powder snow into the engine compartment. We have sealed up the holes in the frame around the shock tower and belly pan assembly with silicone and that has helped a lot. The next area that needs snow prevention is the exhaust vent opening on the right side panel. Lots gets in there after snow hits the shock & A-Arm assembly and flies up right into the engine bay through that vent. Generally snow ingestion through the hood/radiator vents is rare unless I'm driving through deep powder that piles over the front bumper.

Thanks!
YK

 

[drumz11]

Cat part number 5639-835 or 6639-197 for the side panel frogskyns. They look better if you put it from inside the panel covering the holes instead of sticking it on the outside. They also make a screen. Last I knew it was only in the left side but you can just reverse it and use it on the exhaust side with a little bending. Works great. You can put the frogskyn under the screen and use them together if you want to keep everything from coming in those two spots.

 

[Yellowknife]

Thanks! My dealer took a grill off a speaker and cut it to fit the vent. Looks like the factory one on the left side lol will test and see if I need to add prefilter/frogskin over it. Now if I could only put screen over the centre hood vents. Those flimsy vents!!

 

[loudelectronics]

I ran into the same thing. I put frogzskin over the two vents on clutch covers. I also would like a big frogzskin for the rad.

 

[mewaschuk]

I ran into the same thing. I put frogzskin over the two vents on clutch covers. I also would like a big frogzskin for the rad.

fyi the cat hood screen does NOT fit the viper.

 

[Yellowknife]

This is from the folks at Frogzskin...

Hey Allan

Thanks for your question. Unfortunately, we do not sell a kit for the
Viper hood at this time. We are scheduling it for next year's winter
season, so please check back then.

Julie Ross
GTL Inc.
Frogzskin