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"Review" BDX Ascender Pro Max hood

ranger12

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OVER 9 PONDS OF WEIGHT LOSS!!

I admit I was a little skeptical about trying this hood out.
I have personally not had a problem with a BDX hood in the past but I do know of some that have but the fix was the same as a Mountain Fit hood. I did not install a pre filter setup in the intake yet but that might be a possibility in the near future.
The install is super simple!! All you have to do is pull your hood harness out of your stock hood along with your key switch, 12 Volt receptical and outer plastics and install them in the new hood.
I did a fast job of removing the grey foam that is on the underside of new hood and added some more silicone on the sealing surfaces of the new intake. If I would not have removed the foam and added the silicone to the hood I could have done the whole job in 45 minutes or less and there were no instructions with the hood.

The only downside to the hood that I have found is the additional intake noise from the throttle bodies at lower rpms. I don't notice it at the higher rpms.

The stock hood in the pictures is with some holes drilled in it and covered with Frogskin. Without the holes on the same scale the hood weighed 19.2 pounds. So there is a difference of 9.2 ponds with this hood. Even with the half of a tube of silicone I added. I really don't think the silicone was necessary because the gaps I covered up are over the top of the motor but that is just me making it the way I wanted it and maybe keeping some hot air from getting in.
The areas that are cut out on this hood are protected by the outer plastics and not out in the open like on previous BDX hoods.
 

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Some additional pictures. I was told that there was a 2 to 3 HP increase running this hood every time it was put on the dyno. As you can probably see in one of these pictures that the entire stock hood is lying in the background and can be put 100% back to stock at any time. There is no cutting up your original hood and not being able to return it to stock if you sell your sled and someone doesn't like what you did to it.
 

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goridedoo

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How is the fit and finish vs stock and where does the intake pull from?

Are you affiliated with BDX in any way?
 

ranger12

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How is the fit and finish vs stock and where does the intake pull from?

Are you affiliated with BDX in any way?

Fit and finish is pretty good. It is the same Hood section that is currently on the sled stock. The only thing I am going to check into is getting the tabs at the very back of the hood behind the steering column to fasten down better. It would be where the top cowling intake would screw together. You might be able to see it in a picture I posted.
The air is drawn in mainly from the front of the sled. I had it in deep Powder that covered the whole hood purposely and I didn't get any bog or noticed anything unusual.
Not affiliated with BDX I have owned quite a few Pro-lites though.
 

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These tabs are what I am going to try and come up with something to make it look better. That is the only other thing I would do with the hood. These tabs don't play any part in the functionality of the hood it is just me being particular on looks.
 

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Does this kit use a real cat windshield or does the hood have a molded in windshield area.
 

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Does this kit use a real cat windshield or does the hood have a molded in windshield area.

The windshield and dash pod are all molded into one.
Actually pretty ingenious the way it was designed. You don't have any other brackets to hold your gauge or anything. Just remove your gauge, key switch and 12 Volt receptical and install them in the dash pod with the hood harness and you are done.
The dash pod goes over the top of the frogskin area on the hood so if the front openings get plugged with snow it can still get air from around the gauge.
 

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