Custom snorkel build-up
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Custom snorkel build-up
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Not want to compete with 4Hummer, just wanted to show you one of the projects I'm more pleased with, my custom snorkel.
Note this is on a 3.0 Turbo Diesel engine (1KZ-T)
I've never liked the fact of the Safari or Airflow snorkels coming by the fender and then going up by the A-Pilar. Why make it run over the fender if you can run it hidden?
I'm omitting the explanations of each part of the process, not a genius translating!
Materials used are:
- 1 70mm diameter per 1.5mm thickness inox steel pipe with a 50º bend
- 1m of 70mm flexible tube
- Some clasps
- A bit of protection rubber profile
- Some sheetmetal
- Two metal screws
- A Safari snorkel head
Testing lengths
Cutting a "bit" of metal
Let's cut
Better have to recut than...
Hope you like it,
David
Not want to compete with 4Hummer, just wanted to show you one of the projects I'm more pleased with, my custom snorkel.
Note this is on a 3.0 Turbo Diesel engine (1KZ-T)
I've never liked the fact of the Safari or Airflow snorkels coming by the fender and then going up by the A-Pilar. Why make it run over the fender if you can run it hidden?
I'm omitting the explanations of each part of the process, not a genius translating!
Materials used are:
- 1 70mm diameter per 1.5mm thickness inox steel pipe with a 50º bend
- 1m of 70mm flexible tube
- Some clasps
- A bit of protection rubber profile
- Some sheetmetal
- Two metal screws
- A Safari snorkel head
Testing lengths
Cutting a "bit" of metal
Let's cut
Better have to recut than...
Hope you like it,
David
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The shop I get the head from had this in stock but missed the grill.
I'm doing a metal grill for it.
And the clamp... Yes, but I've haven't found it in black... But as I made the painter paint the gray from a Duplicolor code, I've the spray matching so I can paint the clamp gray too hehehehe
The snorkel gives a nice sound to the engine, more hoarse and the turbo whistling is cool!
David
I'm doing a metal grill for it.
And the clamp... Yes, but I've haven't found it in black... But as I made the painter paint the gray from a Duplicolor code, I've the spray matching so I can paint the clamp gray too hehehehe
The snorkel gives a nice sound to the engine, more hoarse and the turbo whistling is cool!
David
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Nope, I was driving for a month with the intake inside the fender and the hole cut but no pipe and no differences in power or mileage, only the noise of the engine sucking and the turbo whistling when accelerating or passing somebody.
I'm pretty glad on how it turned all
David
I'm pretty glad on how it turned all
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Turned out REAL nice. I've been thinking about switching mine from PVC to exhaust pipe aswell.
Its AMAZING how long a hole you have to cut in the fender to get that pipe in eh.
Good Job.
Its AMAZING how long a hole you have to cut in the fender to get that pipe in eh.
Good Job.
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Yeah, the hole is huge hahaha
Do you have enought with 2'' pipe? My intake is 70mm diameter, exactly the same diameter I made the snorkel, but I think turbo engines and diesels suck more air?
David
Do you have enought with 2'' pipe? My intake is 70mm diameter, exactly the same diameter I made the snorkel, but I think turbo engines and diesels suck more air?
David
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Hello,
Looking the 4Hummer post I remembered I didn't show you the ciclonic pre-filter I use in the summer and when I go to the Sahara desert in October.
I bought it in a John Deere dealer, but it's a Spanish brand. It works very very well with dust and water.
Once I got a fly inside and I could see it revving inside the filter hahaha
David
Looking the 4Hummer post I remembered I didn't show you the ciclonic pre-filter I use in the summer and when I go to the Sahara desert in October.
I bought it in a John Deere dealer, but it's a Spanish brand. It works very very well with dust and water.
Once I got a fly inside and I could see it revving inside the filter hahaha
David
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i have to say, thats damn sexy.
i never liked the look of the ABS snorkels, they always looked cheep. i will, one of these days, put one in like that...
awesome man, good work!
i never liked the look of the ABS snorkels, they always looked cheep. i will, one of these days, put one in like that...
awesome man, good work!
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Yeah, the first day I used the prefilter I took it with a quarter inch of very very thin dust. Here in Spain there's a big linking on going to Morocco, Mauritania, Tunis, Libia... And all the "pro" people going to the desert uses cyclonics.
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