Hello,

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

 

pretty slick.

does that snorkel head not have some kind of grating at the opening to prevent bigger things from going in?

oh, and get a black hose clamp to secure the head

 

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

 

Looks very nice, did you notice a drop in your gas mileage (kilometers per liters of fuel?) afterwords?

Lamm

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

I forgot to put a pic of the whole truck:



I still have to install the BJ Spacers...

David

 

That is areally cool snorkel.Just to let you know that you can buy just the snorkel head from ARB for $55.00

 

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

 

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!

 

Yeah me too, I alwais looked at those poorly made PVC snorkels in Suzukis and didn't want mine to look like those hehehe

David

 

Do you notice a big difference in the amount of dust you ingest? I dont really need it for water, I do see a fair amount of dust thou...

 

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.

David

 

Looks really good David ....if we had any water here in Southern California I would do the exact same....all we have is dust, rocks, and cactus

 

Mmmm we can do a biz... You SAS my truck and then I'll make you an snorkel Do you agree?

David

 

That looks REALLY good, any input on how much pipe and what Degrees in the bends?

 

are snorkels even legal in commiefornia?

 

not unless you put 2 cats on it

 

thats what i thought.....