Two years ago after I had snapped my
Rev chassis in half I was talking to Curtis
at Forty1Thirty about his new prototype
chromoly chassis. He wanted someone to
do some testing for him. He told me go
ride it hard and try and break it. I had to
have one after I saw how strong the frame
was and how it handled.
I was approached by Randy Swenson
from Yamaha to ride a Nytro. It's easy to
put a turbo on a sled and go fast but what
I wanted was a machine that could boondock
with no effort and have reliable big
power to go where no one else can go. So
we came up with this concept to build a
"super sled," the ultimate mountain sled
with the strongest chassis, best handling
and lightest weight without compromising
strength as well as run on pump gas.
So Curtis designed the frame around the
motor and turbo for centralized mass. It
has the best handling traits of any sled I've
ever ridden.
The turbo system comes from Alpine
Motorsports, but it needed some additional
components to make it work for
my type of riding. We had to put a catch
tank on the oil breather from the sump
tank and added the RB3 program. Curtis
also changed the fuel system by putting
in a second low pressure pump to a surge
tank and a new flow-through regulator to
eliminate air locks in the fuel rail which
had been causing the sled to stall at some
not-so-good times.
We also changed the clutching around
from the typical turbo setup to a more
aggressive snocross style which eliminated
the turbo lag. Curtis also made a new fuel
map with better bottom end fuel delivery.
The sled has an unreal bottom-end power
delivery as well as insane top-end power.
Basically, it is completely redesigned.
I know Curt is now building the turbo
system. Most of the big power sleds can
climb with ease up steep faces, but with
this sled you can pow carve up those
steep faces, drop a cliff and carve back
down.
As for the chassis, the running boards
are wide and super grippy and I never
have to kick snow off them as snow never
builds up. The chassis is rigid so the front
and rear suspensions are way easier to
dial in. Curtis also built a rear suspension
seat with four inches of travel, plus the
16 inches of travel in the EZ Ryde skid. I
can take huge hits without worrying about
a back injury. The sled has a direct drive
system from RMI which works great with
no chain issues. A lot of updates were
done over the season and now Curtis has
the frame jig complete and is producing
the updated version of my sled.
Check it out at www.forty1thirty.com or
(250) 335-1589.