08 Renegade Bogging in Powder

[CantFindNameNow]

I have an 08 Renegade X 800 that I took out west for the first time this last week. When I bought this it had a low elevation clutch kit, billet heads, y pipe, and a can all from Straight Line Performance. Before I left they told me that the clutch should be fine and I should just have to lower the weights.

Everyday it would run awesome down the trail, but it seemed like once I made it work in the powder it would just run rich and bog a lot only giving me 6200 rpms at best. I'd say it really only ran good in the hills for a half a day. Once I got home I called Straight Line again and told them what was going on and they said that there is a shim in needle to feed it more fuel because of the head and y pipe. I'm hoping that once I take that out it should fix my problem when I go back out west in February, but once I started researching this problem before I knew about the shim I realized that this is common apparently.

I want to know what your opinions are about different air intakes or things I should do to make sure everything performs since I won't have the ability to test it until I'm back out west. I think that removing the shim is going to make a world of difference, but any advice would be appreciated.

 

[P Money]

That may be part of it but the intakes are terrible! I had a bogging problem as well in the over the hood powder days. I did SLP powder valves with some pre filter covering them, and did the SLP high flow intake and in chest deep wet powder full throttle all day it never bogged!!
http://www.startinglineproducts.com/catalog.cfm?pageID=detail&catalogID=4&catID=31&productID=1139
I'd start with at least this personally. I started with the powder valves and still had bogging, made me nervous it has taking in water on top of the box but I think it was just warm engine air. Another problem is exhaust, if it plugs a little with deep snow it won't breath and will bog, I haven't guarded mine but I've heard that can be an issue...
Hope this helps!
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[winter brew]

Intake or exhaust restriction is most likely.

 

[CantFindNameNow]

Thank you! I was worried too because I've read a lot about the bogging even though not everybody has that shim in the needle. I'm going to do the intake also for sure.