N.Y. students win clean snowmobile challenge.(snowmobile report)(Brief Article)

Powersports Business, April, 2005 by Keillor, Lynn

The State University of New York-Buffalo won top honors in the sixth annual Society of Automotive Engineers' Clean Snowmobile Challenge, held at Michigan Technological University's Keweenaw Research Center.

Teams from 13 engineering schools around the country attended the Challenge, modifying ordinary machines to make them quieter and less polluting. The SUNY-Buffalo team attained top honors with a Polaris chassis mated to a turbocharged 600cc four-stroke engine from a Honda Silverwing.

Judging was based on several different categories, including an endurance run, emissions testing, acceleration and objective handling.

Another New York team, from Clarkston University in Potsdam, claimed second place. The two leaders were followed by the...

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