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Development of Clean Snowmobile Technology for the 2005 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge
Technical Paper
2005-01-3679
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Kettering University's Clean Snowmobile Challenge student design team has developed a new robust and innovative snowmobile for the 2005 competition. This snowmobile dramatically reduces exhaust and noise emissions and improves fuel economy compared with a conventional snowmobile. Kettering University has utilized a modified snowmobile in-line four cylinder, four-stroke, engine. The team added an electronically-controlled fuel-injection system with oxygen sensor feedback to this engine. This engine has been installed into a 2003 Yamaha RX-1 snowmobile chassis. Exhaust emissions have been further minimized through the use of a customized catalytic converter and an electronically controlled closed-loop fuel injection system. A newly designed and tuned exhaust as well as several chassis treatments have aided in minimizing noise emissions.
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Carrick, N., Davis, G., Warchuck, D., Block, C. et al., "Development of Clean Snowmobile Technology for the 2005 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-3679, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-3679.Also In
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