How sweet it is ..... Check it out

[Wildfire II]

Here is the proto 340/s pics. Joe!! how did you get ahold of my passport picture??

[Wildfire II]

OH YEAH!!! There is a story for anouther time!!!

[lwb140]

Ed ..... are you sure there was never any girls around?

But you took these pictures ...........

that l/f in the bottom pic has a juice brake on it !!

[Horicon Joe]

So did the 340 on that trip ........

[AirborneX4Special]

Joe!!! One question. Where's the girls?

......and the Dos Equis?

[Wildfire II]

Remember guys. The photo trips were month's before production even started. Many changes were made before then. Some photo trips had fan cooled replaceing liquid motors. You had to be out there when the sun shined and no breakdowns.

[AirborneX4Special]

Didn't some of the 80 LF promo pics actually feature a machine with a fan cooled engine?

[Wildfire II]

We ran fan cooled for the first liq fire promo brochures and the dealer introductory movie on the first liquifire build in Alaska. Cool movie. its out there i seen it some time ago

[ziebellski]

quote="Horicon Joe"]Ed ..... are you sure there was never any girls around?




I'd like to get close to that girl myself, but only because I want that Liquifire suit and helmet!


Todd

[Wildfire II]

Ed ..... I often wondered if anybody ever came up to you guys and questioned what these test sleds are or even noticed something different about them?
Did you ever see your competitors out testing prototype sleds?


Here is a shot of under the hood.
Do you think this thing would have done an endo over the first jump? A bit nose heavy perhaps ......

Joe

When testing in remote areas like the mountians and Alaska you ran into nobody. Remember this is the 70's and early 80's. On one trip to Alaska we ran into the Yamaha team. They were 170 miles on the outher end of a closed road. We met them in the middle one day. We had to haul gas 50 miles out to get back. I will put a picture of our gas hauling rig later. On the trails in the Hurley area where we did alot of testing back then you only had traffic on weekends. We did run into the artic team once, they were testing Suzuki sleds. We met at a intersection and didn't stop. We hardley ever stoped just blew everyone off!! Most of the time our test sleds looked like production except when we made a style change. Then we would make them look ugley. Enjoy ED Gas hauling rig Pallet skis and rope wide open throttle (zoom in)

[AirborneX4Special]

That particular segment of testing seems a lot like work. I would guess the towing snowmobile was geared down to avoid eating drive belts.

[Wildfire II]

I have to leave right now but while i'm on a roll I will have a very interesting story on how that gas hauling came about later tonight. Sled in not geard down

[Wildfire II]

So did the 340 on that trip ........

See what i'm doing to that sled. Look on the seat. Photo trip tools!!! In the pits between runs!

[JDT]

I see a Skiroule temp gauge, an OMC fuel tank and an EGT gauge on that sled.

[S_Kyle]

I see a Skiroule temp gauge, an OMC fuel tank and an EGT gauge on that sled.

Todd, I am not going to argue with you but... I don't belive that the tank is from an OMC, at first glance yes but I belive all of the 1970 ish tanks like that had a 3/8 threaded drain on the lower right side of the tank that is not present in the picture.