Thread: to snorkle or not to snorkle?

thanks for the replies

you made my day

I have a snorkel on my old Series 2 & it has a positive effect on performance, the motor is a Holden 186, temps seem to have gone down a bit as well.

The only problem I can see is that it sucks like a $2.00 wh#*e, some of the bugs it sucks in are pretty big. I reckon I could vacuum my floor with my snorkel.
But really the price was the selling point - $10.55.

Aerodynamics and RRC in the same sentence now thats funny, i think LR was looking at a chipped brick when they designed the RRC. The "norkle " would be the least of your worries !

Sigh ,yeah.
But I can but try to get better economy.
With all the things I have done and tried, It should be making fuel by now.

I also filled in all the "vents" in the spoiler.
Next I think I will make a bit of an undertray.

I am seeing some results. Coming back from Canberra I got 16.2L per 100Km at 110 most of the way towing my 550KG Campomatic over the Range (without the airtabs fitted yet.)
Of course going to Canberra into about a 60Kmh headwind I got 20L per 100Km.
To recap
RRC 92 3.9
Thor Manifold, Unichip, Oxygen sensors,modded heads,raised intake,Filled in spoiler,NOW 30 x "airtabs", This on 245.75x16 ATKOs and 2 inch lift
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Is that a custom hand made jobbie type norkel Wayne?

that opens many possibilities but I'm not going there ... .

Originally Posted by Slunnie

disco2 is not setup like that. It draws air from the inner guard and there is no reversed trumpet setup in the system.I also agree with a previous comment suggesting a performance decrease on the D2, and I believe this is due to a poor match between the safari snorkel and the inner guard port which further restricts and already narrow passage.

So what about the other brands Like from TJm or Oppy Lock?

Originally Posted by mrapocalypse

So what about the other brands Like from TJm or Oppy Lock?

Thats a really good question which I don't know the answer to. I can't imagine them being worse for fit.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

disco2 is not setup like that. It draws air from the inner guard and there is no reversed trumpet setup in the system.I also agree with a previous comment suggesting a performance decrease on the D2, and I believe this is due to a poor match between the safari snorkel and the inner guard port which further restricts and already narrow passage.

Well that setup could be a problem.
I did not use all that was provided with the snorkel kit.
I bought a flexible "Turbo" hose and used that instead, along with matching PVC pipe.

Ron is that a D1? I really like the way you've done it and it should breath really well. Do you have an external pic of the snorkel, or does it look standard from the outside? I haven't got any D2 pics... but just picture asthma.