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Wish we had enough snow to take my sleds out

Yeah, I checked it out and the connection was horrible.

I'm back to snowmaking this year since my degree isn't actually final until the end of the month (2 day before my first student loan bill is due) and can't wait until we have enough snow cover for the sleds to come out. The job becomes fun instead of barely tolerable. 

I work for a club-owned ski area. So I run snow guns at night hoping it will be bitterly cold so they crank out more white stuff and so that instead of getting soaked I get a wind-proof ice-coating. Most of our sleds are the touring type, so they like to tip over when they aren't on level ground (which is always). My equipment load-out is a huge propane torch, headlamp,mallet, pick, flathead screwdriver, wrench, and spare nozzles. Occasionally a climbing harness but I tend to just try not to die. I've you've never been in a snowcat sliding in circles down a double-diamond trail or taken a snowmobile off a big-air jump, you haven't lived. 

  Venom?  Is that  a Viper with factory triples?    You'll have to forgive me I'm a crazy polaris guy  

Edited by Lightningbolt - 11 December 2011 at 6:57pm

Last season for drag racing on the ice my only loss of the season was to an SRX.  It's Doc Fang prepped so it's basically like trying to race something John Force put together for a client.

First thing should be to see if it has triple pipes.  Both sleds.

I know that stock the sxr in stock form has a manifold that goes from the 3 cylinders and reduces to a single pipe from there.  I'm guessing the venom does too.  I'd be hoping for an aftermarket exhaust system where there's 3 separate pipes for each cylinder.  The engine bay will look crammed full of pipes if it has triples.

It's probably a 40 h.p gain right there. 

Edited by Lightningbolt - 12 December 2011 at 2:45pm

unless you're at altitude boost isn't very friendly to 2 strokes.  It's a ticking time bomb.  You're better off spraying it with juice.

It will probably rip hard enough if you can snag a used set of triples foe 200-250 then I can call Doc Fang and he can tell me the $100 worth of clutch parts you need

Edited by Lightningbolt - 12 December 2011 at 2:54pm

I found a set of used Bender's that are listed for $300.00.  If they're still available he'll probably take 250-275.  Someone showed interest in them yesterday.  If it's something you're interested in I'd have to call Doc to see if the Bender's are even the right set.  He has a dyno so he's got the scientific means to determine which pipes actually work.