Capt. Nemo
NAXJA Member #904
- Location
- Southwest, US
I am a function over form person. If it isn’t necessary, the time and money aren’t going to be spent on it. Because of this, I feel like I have to defend myself with this poser mod. However, I don’t think I can adequately defend myself, so I’ll just admit that this is indeed a “poser mod” (*sigh* I feel better now…). If I could offer a defense – it would be that I have hydro-locked one engine (thus my screen name) and the cost was a total of under $30 to make this. Will I use it, I’m sure I will at some point. Is it necessary, probably not and I’ll probably smack it on a rock before I even get down to the river.
The snorkel body is made from two Mercedes 4 cylinder diesel air intakes that I “welded” together end to end with my soldering gun. Since the plastic is the same, the melting plastic will combine together and form one unit. The top of the snorkel is made from a BMW intake that was cut. I again “welded” plastic gutter screening across the opening so that I wouldn’t suck in any birds (heh, heh). The flexible hose in the engine compartment is from a Dodge Caravan, and the rest of the snorkel is PVC pipe and fittings from the local hardware store.
Here are the Mercedes intakes before they were joined together.
All together
Close up of the "welded" joint
Hole location. The hole is elongated to accomodate the bend in the snorkel body so that it can sit closer to the fender.
To secure the body to the fender and up the A pillar, I pop-riveted hose clamps in position
Snorkel top. The professional snorkel top have slots to allow rain to escape before going down to the air box. I drilled holes to try and accomplish the same thing. Don't know if it will work, but it was worth a shot.
My first attempt to connect the up tube with the snorkel body looked terrible. At this point I was unable to come up with a way to connect the body and tube together. I tried "welding" the plastics together using scrap pieces, but the two plastics are different and they wouldn't stay together. I thought that the pipe fittings were the only solution.
After some thinking, I figured out how to join them together without the pipe fittings. It took some sanding, but turned out looking decent.
The snorkel body is made from two Mercedes 4 cylinder diesel air intakes that I “welded” together end to end with my soldering gun. Since the plastic is the same, the melting plastic will combine together and form one unit. The top of the snorkel is made from a BMW intake that was cut. I again “welded” plastic gutter screening across the opening so that I wouldn’t suck in any birds (heh, heh). The flexible hose in the engine compartment is from a Dodge Caravan, and the rest of the snorkel is PVC pipe and fittings from the local hardware store.
Here are the Mercedes intakes before they were joined together.
All together
Close up of the "welded" joint
Hole location. The hole is elongated to accomodate the bend in the snorkel body so that it can sit closer to the fender.
To secure the body to the fender and up the A pillar, I pop-riveted hose clamps in position
Snorkel top. The professional snorkel top have slots to allow rain to escape before going down to the air box. I drilled holes to try and accomplish the same thing. Don't know if it will work, but it was worth a shot.
My first attempt to connect the up tube with the snorkel body looked terrible. At this point I was unable to come up with a way to connect the body and tube together. I tried "welding" the plastics together using scrap pieces, but the two plastics are different and they wouldn't stay together. I thought that the pipe fittings were the only solution.
After some thinking, I figured out how to join them together without the pipe fittings. It took some sanding, but turned out looking decent.