gild said:What I Believe is that steam is increasing underhood pressure which in turn pressurizes the float bowls causing sled to go rich. It has nothing to do with air intake density. If the vents are plugged hood pressure will increase. On the older sleds SnowTech mentioned that the SRXs under higher speeds went rich because of the change in under hood pressure. I am not sure but I thought the Viper was vented to the airbox so any underhood pressure spikes caused by steam would enter through the drain holes and pressurize the airbox causing an instant rich condition which causes the bog.This only happens witha totally covered hood and a shot of steam that is why with no hood there is no change in airbox pressure no matter how much steam is created.Then you have an air snow injestion problem.
M-Max said:My 01 MM 700 powder bogs but only when carving hard to the right.
It did it with the stock exhaust and with ceramic coated Bender triples.
I does not matter if the hood is covered or packed with snow, it will only do it when hard carving to the right. This makes my think my issue is exhuast.
I have an exhaust deflector but without removing it I don't know if it makes any difference or not.
mightymg said:OK guys I did a little testing for you this week! I took the first part of my airbox off and I taped my drivers side ram air vent closed with duct tape.In 3 ft or powder I got tons of powder bog all day. So when I got home I put the top of my airbox back on and went out and ran it again.! BOOM ITS ALL GONE! it ran perfect. SO I think it has something to do with the air box! I have hauck painted tripple pipes. and mech steel vents, so the powder is always hitting my pipes and no bog, it all has to do with the air box.. ohh and my carb heat was off, and my my hood was covered with powder all day! ok thats my.02.. good luck!
mightymg said:ok Test number 2! well seemd the bog wasnt gone,. I thoguht it was.. well the powder on the first test just wasnt deep enoguh so it was a combo pf two things im certain! first air box cant be open it needs to be sealed to the hood. 2nd deep snow riding means you must have a exhaust deflector. just like many of the posts on here say! whenever i sidehilled on my exhaust side major bog unles my rpms were up. whenever i stopped in really deep snow ( 2ft or more of straight fluff) i would have to clean the snow away from my exhaust out let or it wouldnt alow me to build rpm... as soon as I cleared the snow wiht my hand it ran perfect..
so in conclusion
#1 airbox sealed!
#2 Exhaust deflector... im gonna build one this week Ill update if that fixes it completely or not!