needing a good snorkel idea, i took the soob out to this local mud spot today and it did perfect except for this 1 deep puddle that pretty much completely submerged the engine and when it did i barrely got outta it and then had the car die on the road 4 a few got it going and got it home but almost till i got to the house it was backfireing through the carb and there was muddy water all around the inside of the air filter. so i really think i need a high mounted air intake for this but dont have a clue what to use or where to start, any ideas?

 

moderator go ahead and move this to offroad i wasnt paying attention where i posted i guess lol

Take a look at Qman's old hatchback in the photo gallery. It's got a nice snorkel on it. I think I'm going to build mine in a similar fashion.

a wet disty will hurt more than a little water in the carb

i was actually suprised but when i pulled the disty off it was 100% dry inside not a drop of water in it, snowman ill check out that gallery ty for the info.

from what i gather, get creative.there are a whole bunch of ideas and they are bound to work...what's yours?i have a few but am not to that point yet.deep to me right now is cutting the grill in half with water.yet i still have been to my local hardware store and thought about it.just do it, and if it doesn't work , do it again.

For a really easy cheap snorkel, make it out of PVC pipe with a few bends to get it where you want it to be. put it through up near the front of the left side panel ( there's a spot where there's no re-inforcing to cut through ).

 

As for attaching it to your engine, you *could* use a hose attached to the air intake of the stock blue filter box. or you could a seperate sealed airbox taken from a random snorkled 4x4 at the wreckers ( usually has 2 hoses coming out, one goes to carby, other to snorkel ) then get a adaptor build that's basically a box that bolts down to the carby and has a fitting for the hose to attach to. If you have a webber redline makes a snorkel air filter that will bolt onto it.

 

Here is mine ( before I actually attached it to carby ), can see the airfilter box sitting in the spare wheel holder.

 

here you go...

 

 

A snorkel upto the bottom of your windshield is fine. Snorkels above your head? You'll drown... Seen pics of Subarus deeper than the bottom of the window lines? They float away!

great snorkels guys, about the only thing im not real crazy about is the front exit on the fender, too much metal sticking out for my liking. im looking for something that would exit the body towards the back of the hood type of area

To put it through right up close to the back of the bonnet I think you'd need to cut through extra steel ( reinforcing etc ) possibly affecting the strength / safety of the car ?

whats the smallest air line you could run and not hack off performance, like adapt it inside so it goes from lage to small so you can run it through tight spaces or even possibly the firewall and the once have plenty of space open it up again?

hmmm i forgot all about this thread, guess its from my mud bogging days, i would personally think that you wouldnt want to go any smaller than 1 inch at most