Home made snorkel for series 1 disco

[lambrover]

[Hi guys, I have just signed up and trying to find my around this site, I am new to forums its easy to get lost. Any way just like to share my experiance with my home made snorkel, material of course is down pipe and assossiated fittings. I went the home made way because of cost. Well the improvement was so great I had to tell some one, I used to get 250k per tank at best now the best I have done is 308k fair improvement. I looked on the UK web sites for ideas but they used 65mm pipe I used 80mm and made the intake bigger on the air box to 80mm this has allowed the V8 to breath so much better. :) [

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[harry]

welcome lambrover, your snorkel sounds interesting, hope you can get some pics up.

[lambrover]

Thanks Harry, I aventualy got the pics on my first post,

[87County]

that's good so far...

I'm wondering how you're going to enter the guard and avoid conflicting with the corner of the bonnet

looking forward to seeing your result

[procrastination inc]

I used to get 250k per tank at best now the best I have done is 308k ...


serious?

how big is your tank?

[harry]

that's good so far...

I'm wondering how you're going to enter the guard and avoid conflicting with the corner of the bonnet

looking forward to seeing your result

me too, and can you show a shot of the black part of the ducting on the bit above the wheel?
and what sort of tube is that?

[lambrover]

My tank is 60 useable liters of gas not much. the black hose is from Enzed,it is for the pressure side off a pump or what ever, it dosent have any wire in it so it could squash down a bit. It was a tight fit but I reaken it is better going big than not enough air.having trouble putting pics on here,there is one more in the original slid at the top of the page.

[RonMcGr]

Well done!
Certainly cheaper than the common ones :D

[lambrover]

Thanks mate, certainly is cheaper. I have just come back from a trip in the Snowys and up on the top it kept back firing and blow the crap out of the air box, I thought about it for awhile and I turned the snorkel head back ter front and this fixed the problem. If you know any body with this problem try that.

[dirtdawg]

can you post up some more pics as i am thinkin about making one aswell pics of how you have plumbed it into the airbox would be good, i woould be thinking about ditching the airbox and putting a foam filter at the top of the snorkel

[RonMcGr]

I used to get 250k per tank at best now the best I have done is 308k ...


serious?

how big is your tank?

Did a snorkel make that improvement?

[87County]

thanks for adding that guard pic

very neatly through the guard I see, a potentially problematic area, - well done..

please let us know what the plastic fittings used for this joint are (angle & dia is cast on the fitting)?

as far as appropiate tubing goes, there is a rigid plastic pipe (black w/yellow stripe) used ug gas main which is abt 90mm ID and 100mm od - but I doubt it would fit as high in the guard space as you have done

[lambrover]

yeah the snorkel has made the difference in fuel consumption, cooler air and you getslight ram air and I made the intake bigger in the air box so the engine is getting air much easier. My pipe(white) is 80mm gutter down pipe from Bunnings and the corners are 80mm but are from a plumbing shop and r a different size, it was a bit loose but it still worked I used 2x 90 degree and 2x 45 degree bends I think, the black hose is a rubber type hose from Enzed it has no wire in it so it was able to form over the steel on the inner guard, it tok abit of jiggling to get right but I reaken that my snorkel alows more air through than a bought one.

[lambrover]

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hope these help

[RonMcGr]

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hope these help

Well done, I had always thought that tiny pipe at the front was too restrictive!

[RonMcGr]

Thanks mate, certainly is cheaper. I have just come back from a trip in the Snowys and up on the top it kept back firing and blow the crap out of the air box, I thought about it for awhile and I turned the snorkel head back ter front and this fixed the problem. If you know any body with this problem try that.

That is a problem with LPG, too much air upsets the mixture just as much as not enough :D

[lambrover]

thats what I thought, in the UK they used a 65mm pipe and over the distance of the plumbing a reaken that was to restrictive. If you suck on a staw hard enough you can make it collapse, but if you suck on a large staw like the one you get at the movies it is harder to collapse. This is my reasoning for going as big as I can.

[dirtdawg]

i think you should come down to melb for a bbq and we can make up a snorkel for my car!!