building a snork

Post by **matthewK** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:27 pm

hey guys

was thinking on building a snorkel with stainless steel any idea or pics on how to ??
and where the best place to get parts from?

seen a nice job at the 4x4 show i think 1 up from where mr chezzy were
< nice lil rig he has :cool:

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Post by **bigbluemav** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:11 pm

Get an exhaust shop to weld up pipes and bends as you require for inside engine bay.

For outside, I used two pieces, one that runs along the guard and another that goes up the A pillar. I had the exhaust shop weld studs onto these legths of pipe at apprpriate places to bolt the piece to the guard and I drilled through the A pillar to mount the other bit.

For the corners I went to a truck air cleaner place and bought a 90deg. bend and 2x 45deg. bends. In brisbane I went to Brisbane Air Cleaner Services. There'll be similar places in Melb.

Hope this helps. If you want a piccie, PM me and I'll email it to you.

Regards

Post by **Galou** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:27 pm

here are some pics of what you are looking for. This is for a french car dont know if it can Fit an aussie one.

Post by **J Top** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:03 pm

That French job is very neat the way it stays out of the way inside the guard.
Make sure you use a big enough diameter pipe as the longer it is the more air friction/restriction there is.
J Top

Post by **viperguy** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:18 pm

here are a couple pics of my custom snorkel job on my mav shorty.. i got an exhaust place to get me bends and welded to pipe the shape i wanted. the welded on flanges to screw fix the set up to my A pillar. i painted mine black to go with my colour scheme but u could easily do the same thing in stainless. also note my snorkel faces backwards as i run on straight lpg. on a deisel or petrol u would just get a snorkle head and attach. all up cost me about 160 and a day stuffing around. also note where i ran my snorkel through the gaurd..not the hole lower down the inner guard...but straight through the inner as u can see in the pic
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-10/ ... norkel.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-10/ ... age005.jpg

Post by **matthewK** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:30 pm

so basically you moved the whole lot up toward the fire wall
how did you cut the inner and outer guard?

Post by **Galou** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:15 am

For my part i can't say much about this operation because i didn't did it myself and is not my Car.

That was just to give some ideas of what could be done.

Post by **Patroler** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:22 am

I made one out of 100mm stainless, theres pictures on my page below, no welding, just used some black rubber elbows.

Post by **viperguy** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:41 am

cutting the hole where i decided to run my snorkel was the job from hell.. cutting the inner burnt out 3 hole saws and ended up using a grinder and air hacksaw. then i noticed where i cut the ineer hole from the engine bay had a second skin which is actually a reinforcing for the body. so i took the guard off and sliced the hole, then plated up the body to strengthen back where i had cut. the outer guard was cut with a nibbler.

i decided to position where i did as i wanted the most direct route to the throttle body. i kept the air swirler in my set up. in a deisel u would have to either keep the precleaner set up or use a better secondary cleaner if u went this way..

Post by **Patroler** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:21 pm

i just pulled the gaurd off (gq) put masking tape on it, marked out where i wanted the hole - the hardest bit - with texta, drilled a hole and then ran the jigsaw around it, had to cut from both sides due to flared gaurd, easy as pie.
Ive got a 4 1/2 inch hole though, wasn't keen on buying hole saws $$$

Post by **matthewK** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:56 pm

where about did ya guys get the still pipes from??
and the rubber sleaves?

Post by **wannaberacer** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:18 pm

I made the one for my Bronco out of 75mm stainless pipe and rubber bends. Used a 90 degreee bend coming out the side panel then 2 45 degrees bends to get up to where the snorkel snout sits on. The rubber bends came from a truck parts shop. The holes through the panels were done with lots of drill holes, then finished off with a die grinder bit. The cut edge was then covered with a strip moulding from Clark Rubber. End result looked great.

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Post by **Daisy** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:30 pm

matthewK wrote:where about did ya guys get the still pipes from??
and the rubber sleaves?

rubber sleeves - flexible hoses or pirtek hose shops

TOM

Post by **bogged** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:37 pm

if yor going stainless I would think it will work out cheaper to get a safari

Post by **matthewK** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:22 pm

i thing i will use normal steel and powder coat it myself

i will do it just after i move

where in melbourne is a decent priced joint to get the steel?

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