Before i start I'm just going to say YOU ARE NOT forced to read my ramblings if you don't want to, everything is in picture form too, I'll do my best to keep it in order.
Hey all, I'm gonna start by introducing myself as a simple two-stroke mechanic from Kamloops B.C. Currently working under the watchful eyes of Robin and Kristopher Reeb, getting more than my fair share of guidance and help along the way. So, the place of business is Badass performance, a small performance division of Robin's Marine Service. We now have a few sleds in the stable that are capable of more than what they were originally designed for, including a Cutler powered M7, a "1994" 790 BB zr 700, Monster Snopro 440 fan and a 2006 Summit X Piped with a holz skid and SLP jugs heads and pipe; Anyway, back to the point. Last season i got the chance to play around on the one we call "frankenstein" and somewhat unfortunately, fell in love. I decided that i had to build one, obviously it would take me quite some time to track down everything needed for such a project along with all the time to do such a thing. *Side note* the sled is in running order now i just was to busy working on her I just didn't have the time to write this up. Last summer we had a stroke of luck and managed to purchase a used snowmobile parts business, meaning most of the parts i needed were around. My eyes were caught by a green and black mountain cat and I knew at that moment I had found my sled, the project had officially begun.
As any reasonable project starts the sled was gutted, cleaned and stared upon for a few days as ideas flew around inside my head. Chats with co-workers, hours spent on the forums, ideas tossed around with customers interested in the contraption sitting in the middle of the shop. The plan started to fall together in my mind so off to work i went.
Every single piece pulled off when into one of two bins, Pieces to go back in, and unnecessary weight and clutter. Of course a few things got misplaced as with all projects, i also believe some may have got sold without my permission but after all we sell parts and all i had to do was go find a new one.
First things first, drop and rolled chain case, no point building a mountain sled if you can't even fit a 2" track on it! "Borrowed" and idea from the frankenstein monster which had an ekholm tunnel and D&R in it where the jackshaft actually went through the inside of the tunnel, so away I went measuring clearances, distances for various critical items such as clutch centres and so on. Holes were drilled and beers were drank as we working into the late hours of the night. All in all the D&R was a fairly easy mod once we had a solid plan to go with, and we got that driveshaft as low as possible in the tunnel while still being able to bolt the chain case in.
Next on the list was the forward mount steering post, this is a simple mod, usually just involved flipping the post to the other side of the support and away you go, so thats what i did, but then i though how much further could i go forward and still be in a comfortable position? Some dry fits were done with the engine on the bench just to see what would work. What we found was there was a lot of room to move forward but that gas tank was just too wide and bulky up top to stay comfortable while way up there. Out to the yard we went, coming back with a few tank/seat options to try out, 06 rmk, 09 rmk and a m-series were the top three choices in my books. Again more dry fits and fiddling was done and the 09 polaris was the winner, the 06 didn't fit very well and the m-series was just a little bulky for my liking.
*There was also a little lexan reinforced race seat floating around i played with for a while*
Plastic was also fitted just to see if it would look okay still.
Hey all, I'm gonna start by introducing myself as a simple two-stroke mechanic from Kamloops B.C. Currently working under the watchful eyes of Robin and Kristopher Reeb, getting more than my fair share of guidance and help along the way. So, the place of business is Badass performance, a small performance division of Robin's Marine Service. We now have a few sleds in the stable that are capable of more than what they were originally designed for, including a Cutler powered M7, a "1994" 790 BB zr 700, Monster Snopro 440 fan and a 2006 Summit X Piped with a holz skid and SLP jugs heads and pipe; Anyway, back to the point. Last season i got the chance to play around on the one we call "frankenstein" and somewhat unfortunately, fell in love. I decided that i had to build one, obviously it would take me quite some time to track down everything needed for such a project along with all the time to do such a thing. *Side note* the sled is in running order now i just was to busy working on her I just didn't have the time to write this up. Last summer we had a stroke of luck and managed to purchase a used snowmobile parts business, meaning most of the parts i needed were around. My eyes were caught by a green and black mountain cat and I knew at that moment I had found my sled, the project had officially begun.
As any reasonable project starts the sled was gutted, cleaned and stared upon for a few days as ideas flew around inside my head. Chats with co-workers, hours spent on the forums, ideas tossed around with customers interested in the contraption sitting in the middle of the shop. The plan started to fall together in my mind so off to work i went.
Every single piece pulled off when into one of two bins, Pieces to go back in, and unnecessary weight and clutter. Of course a few things got misplaced as with all projects, i also believe some may have got sold without my permission but after all we sell parts and all i had to do was go find a new one.
First things first, drop and rolled chain case, no point building a mountain sled if you can't even fit a 2" track on it! "Borrowed" and idea from the frankenstein monster which had an ekholm tunnel and D&R in it where the jackshaft actually went through the inside of the tunnel, so away I went measuring clearances, distances for various critical items such as clutch centres and so on. Holes were drilled and beers were drank as we working into the late hours of the night. All in all the D&R was a fairly easy mod once we had a solid plan to go with, and we got that driveshaft as low as possible in the tunnel while still being able to bolt the chain case in.
Next on the list was the forward mount steering post, this is a simple mod, usually just involved flipping the post to the other side of the support and away you go, so thats what i did, but then i though how much further could i go forward and still be in a comfortable position? Some dry fits were done with the engine on the bench just to see what would work. What we found was there was a lot of room to move forward but that gas tank was just too wide and bulky up top to stay comfortable while way up there. Out to the yard we went, coming back with a few tank/seat options to try out, 06 rmk, 09 rmk and a m-series were the top three choices in my books. Again more dry fits and fiddling was done and the 09 polaris was the winner, the 06 didn't fit very well and the m-series was just a little bulky for my liking.
*There was also a little lexan reinforced race seat floating around i played with for a while*
Plastic was also fitted just to see if it would look okay still.
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The hole for fuel pump looks very closely same as used in Cat and SD Rev, did you try Cat fuel pump there? Nice to see there's still people playing with these old stuff. I need to do that recoil update too. 
