M8 Intake gets wet, help please

[jdm1985]

I have a 2008 M8 sno pro. Whenever i ride in fresh powder, it inhales snow into the airbox, melts, then freezes, then the throttle starts sticking. It is bone stock minus slp can. Wondering about solutions or aftermarket boxes, which ones work well. Already have frogskinz on all vents, last time i pulled the airbox apart, complete layer of ice. I ride in the flat country, kind of concerned about how it would act in the mountains if/when i get there. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[ACMtnCat]

The stock air box works great if the duct behind the screens are sealed good to the back side of the screen. It does have a poor fitting foam seal back there. Check there and make sure snow isn't going in the headlight cracks and it to the air box and you should be good to go.

If your looking to loose weight? You might look at the Cutler or BDX light weight air boxes. The are not cheap but you can loose a good amount of weight and they work great.

 

[89sandman]

speedwerx makes a bra to help with this problem.

 

[ACMtnCat]

speedwerx makes a bra to help with this problem.

Hows that? He is getting snow inside the air box not the hood. There is really only two places snow can get inside the box and thats at the intake screens.

 

[geo]

And the airbox to intake boot seal. Especially in cold weather, like fine powder days.

Geo

 

[furthur]

Could be snow pushing into the seal. AC makes a bra from the snow-pro (sorry, no part number handy) that works good too. If you run brush, a direct hit from a stick can push the snorkle off too and suck in snow.

 

[jdm1985]

Thanks for the advice so far. I still had the thoughts of aftermarket systems too, so any more advice as far as that goes would be great too. I will find out if what i did before helps, we got fresh snow again, waiting for it to warm up a bit. let everyone know after the weekend.

 

[jdm1985]

Turns out everything worked good this weekend, found a little bit of ice in the intake but nothing like before, still thinking about aftermarket so once again any more ideas there would be great.

 

[AKm700]

Snow gets into the stock intake where the hood airbox meets the hood intake holes. The best way I have found to fix this is to remove the hood airbox and silicone some pre-filter material over the two intake slots in the airbox. This makes the airbox almost completely sealed. The other way snow gets in is around the headlights. If it is a very fine powder day it can find its way into the intake. I have seen a lot of snow ingestion issues with aftermarket intakes. I would recommend staying away from those. Just my experience. Good luck.