Thread: Snorkels SWB Slll

Originally Posted by Bazz67

Gday John
........But in the mean time if I go down this track do you think that if I put a goose neck type inlet on the snorkle this would cause problems witht the oil being forced into the carb at all. I am not sure as to this or not.
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If I understand correctly, you are concerned about the effects of ram air on a forward facing inlet for the snorkel. It is not the slightest problem for an oil bath air cleaner - the ram effect is negligible compared to the flow of air through the aircleaner at full throttle and maximum rpm - and the same air cleaner is used on the six. The biggest problem you are likely to have is devising a way of connecting the snorkel pipe to the air cleaner - as you saw from the page I posted, the snorkel used a different aircleaner, almost certainly made form unobtainium. Very early Series 1s used a precleaner that gave you a suitable pipe type inlet, but these are also scarce as hen's teeth. The best solution would probably be remove the slotted top fitting on the aircleaner and to weld or silver solder onto the top of the aircleaner a carburetter elbow.

John