This snowmobile started life as two sleds: a 94 XLT Special and a 95 XLT SKS.

I'd wanted to build a mountain sled for a long time. I wanted more capability to explore off-trail on our annual western riding trips. In search of more fun riding out west, I'd done more and more mods to my short tracked midwest sleds each year. This had gotton to the point where I was spending weeks readying and unreadying my sled to go out west each year. Bad snow in the midwest the last couple years has made me realize my western riding is actually more important to me than my midwest riding. I was spending a lot of time and money each year on western mods for my sleds, only to give them away when I sold the sled-- and I still didn't have a sled that performed that well.

So I started looking around and discovered a 94 XLT Special that had all the labor intensive chassis mods done for mountain riding (rolled chaincase) but was mostly stock and kind of beat up. At the same time I found a 95 XLT-SKS that was mint, had low miles, thousands of dollars of bolt-on mountain parts, but had a stock chassis. What a dilema! So I cleared it with my wife, bought them both, and the project began.

The plan was to take all the cool "unobtainium" parts and misc. mountain goodies off the 95 and bolt it on the 94 with the trick chassis.

Then all the stock stuff from the 94 went on the 95. After a scare due to the slow selling season in MN this year, I sold the 95.

So what I ended up with is; a solid mountain sled, for very little cash, that is only about 3 years behind state-of-the-art cutom mountain sleds.

Chassis:

Bulkhead: 94 Polaris Indy with rolled chaincase

Tunnel: 94 Polaris XLT Special with

RMK tunnel extension

RMK rolled edge grippers

Front Suspension:

Fox IFP shocks

Skis: SLP Ultralite

Trailing Arms: SLP CrMo

Radius Rods: SLP CrMo

Metal Man greaseble bushings

Rear Suspension:

Fox IFP shocks

SLP long travel rear arm

Hiperfax teflon slides

extra idler wheels in the front of the skid frame

Steering:

Powercrank CrMo stering bellcrank

Tie Rods: SLP aluminum

Steering Arms: SLP aluminum

Brakes: Wliwood caliper

Engine:

94 XLT 580 triple with 34 mm. carbs, mostly stock except for:

SLP 12-31 high altitude heads for 5000+ ft.

SLP triple pipes.

SLP "mass ring" harmonic balancer

95 fuel pump and line routing (pump not attached to airbox)

Track: Polaris/Camoplast 1.75" x 136" paddle.

Misc Goodies:

Avenger II EGT and tachometer

Tether cable kill switch

Ripco" handle balls" bar ends

Jim's Upolstry "mountain bar"

SLP CrMo "comfort" handlebar

Holeshot skid plate

Cobra windshield

Alpine windshield bag

EZPak gas can rack

Weight: 492 lbs. with spare belt, 6 spare plugs, shovel, full coolant, 1 qt. of oil and no gas

Horsepower: about 115 HP at 9000 RPM according to SLP

Compression: about 110 psi at 6600 ft.

Jetting: 165 mains, 6DP17 needles in 3rd clip, Q-0 needle jets, air screws 1/2 turns out

Primary Clutch: P-1 (43g) weights, "max clips", blue spring

Secondary Clutch: 38/34 helix, SLP black spring in the fourth hole

Gearing:17/39 with 64 pitch chain

Drivers: 9 tooth

Rear skidframe: one light and one medium torsion spring with preload set full soft with the limit strap as long as possible

Ski stance: 38"

Sway bar: yes