Thread: Home made snorkel for series 1 disco

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

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.

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Originally Posted by lambrover

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

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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.