WARNING... V Force owners, & any Prairie owners modding your air box... If you get water into your air box, you will get water into your oil though the crank case vent, which runs directly from your crank case, to the bottom of your filter box...

this is an exerp of my post in the Prairie forum, concerning a 2 WD mud drag...


"Well I got lined up beside the DS... the pit ( for the 2 WD classes ), consisted of about 6" of mud, with a firm bottom, & a "jump" in the middle of the 150' pit ( there was 3-4" of standing water on top of the 6" of mud, on the other side of the jump, & there were 2 pits, side by side ( the south pit was consistantly slower, but, each racer ran once in each pit, & their times were added together )... I started in the ( slower ), south pit, & the DS & I were pretty much side by side, until we hit the jump, & he sucked water, on the landing... on our second run, when I was in the fast lane, I hit the jump with enough speed, that I went into the air, 4-5'... I had enough time, to "kick it out" free style, ( sideways across the pit, while in the air ), & bring it back to "nearly" straight, before landing, & still beat him by about 1/2 of the 150'...

WARNING... V Force owners, & any Prairie owners modding your air box... If you get water into your air box, you will get water into your oil though the crank case vent, which runs directly from your crank case, to the bottom of your filter box..."

Both V Forces in the big bore 2 WD class, had filter box mods, & both got water in their oil... this could be possibly, over come, by extending the crank case vent hose, into the filter box, as far as the velocity stacks stick up over the carbs, & adding a drain valve, out of the filter box, if the Forces box, doesn't already have one... you could also route your crank case vent up to the handle bars, like alot of the BBK owners are doing... With the wet summer we are having, water in the filter box, is probably not limited to mud drags, but could also easily happen, during a GNCC / Hare Scramble type race, or just pounding wet muddy trails, with a modded filter box...

Stay dry...