Patent ID: 7222689
Filing Date: 2007-05-29
Classification: B62M

Abstract:
1. A snowmobile with an intercooler comprising: a vehicle body; a pair of lateral steering skids mounted to a front lower surface of the vehicle body; a crawler mechanism disposed at a portion below a rear side portion of the vehicle body, the crawler mechanism including a drive wheel, a driven wheel and an endless track wound around the respective wheels; and a four-stroke-cycle engine unit disposed in an engine room covered by an engine hood and including an engine body, a turbocharger, an intercooler for cooling an intake-air, which is pressurized and heated up by the turbocharger in the engine room, and an electric motor-driven cooling fan provided for the intercooler for introducing an outside air to the intercooler through which the air after cooling the intercooler is discharged toward the inside of the engine room, wherein the engine unit is mounted in a state in which the engine body is inclined reaward in an advancing direction of a vehicle body, the turbocharger is diposed on a front side of the engine body, the electric motor-drive fan is disposed on a front side of the turbocharger, and the intercooler is disposed in front of the electric motor-driven fan, and wherein an air-intake channel for guiding an intake air cooled by the intercooler to a throttle body disposed reaward of the engine body is arranged above the cylinder head.