Patent ID: 7497292
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
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 electric motor-driven cooling fan is disposed in front of the intercooler, and the intercooler and the electric motor-driven cooling fan are disposed above a cylinder head of the engine body.