Rodeo Stainless Snorkel

[sturmz]

Hi all,

was considering making up a stainless snorkel for my 1995 turbo diesel rodeo.

Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on what size stainless tubing to use, how to mount it up the top etc etc....

cheers, luke

[sava75]

mate, a friend is helping me with a 3.5" stainless snorkel on my BJ73. I made the mistake of getting heavy guage stuff (3mm wall thickness) and it weighs alot more than i hoped. We are drilling a hole right through the A pillar and using 10x 80 long bolts with rubber bushes, i can reach in and put a nyloc nut on the inside of the tube. The same will be done on the guard, i hope it works out. I found it difficult to find the silicon bends for this size, and if i was to do it again, I would go either 3 or 4 inch. All up I will have spent almost 300, which includes a schmick bit of stainless and some nice billet alloy clamps. good luck with it.
Sam.

[chikoroll_]

i made mine back in december-
2x$40 for 4foot lengths of stainless on ebay
1x$30, the air ram was from a truck supplies shop-
Queensland Diesel Supplies
the rubber bends were from Harvey Hose - now Purple Pig
3x$25 each (2x45, 1x90degree's)
7x$5hose clamps were from harvey hose
1x$10 tube of Neutral cure Silicone (doesn't rust bare metal)
$10 of nuts, bolts, washers and spring washers

some aluminium i had lieing around was used for the A-pillar bracket
drilled straight into the side of the air box and blocked the other side off with some 8mm industrial plastic (40L turps container cut up)

total cost was just over $200
you might want to consider plugging the drain hole in your air box (but if some prick pours water down your snorkel, and you crank the engine, the engine is toast)- bit of a trade-off, or you could just make a wedge to plug into it when going offroading, but unplug it afterwards

the improvement in induction was instantly noticable, easier rpm's on the highway, more throttle response, instant improvement on economy