G'day guys!
Keithy here!
Just thought I'd do up a quick vid - and THANK YOU for the prompts for me to do this video.
So today it's going to be about the snorkel on my P38 Range Rover.
I'll give you the run-down on what's gone into it to make it happen.
How much it cost ($800 Australian - I didn't mention it in the video).
And any issues that I've encountered while running it.
Hopefully you can do the same!
So here it is in all its glory!
P38 Range Rover Snorkel!
Something that not a lot of people have done, and done right.
We'll start in the air box.
So you'll see it's not much different from factory there.
Bar a few little nips and tucks - obviously the stainless has to come through and reduce
down to this size for the job to be well done.
It's all sealed in there - you can't see it because I've got the cabling for my air spring
valves that go over to here running through there, so that's a bit hard to see.
What I will point out though, is that is the drain.
The water drain for this airbox.
That's a standard P38 drain and I highly recommend you leave that in there!
You'll see that there's been a bit of water in here but it hasn't come from wading.
It's actually come through the snorkel head, I'll explain that a bit better.
You can see my airbox lid there, modified a little bit for the air compressor intake
- that's been going really well by the way.
So we'll start from here, we've got a 90 degree coming out of the airbox.
Note the clearance between the body.
And the fact that it runs pretty much along this quarter panel line, level with where
the bonnet joins the quarter panel.
You can do it however you want obviously, this is just a guide!
Riv-nuts, straight through the panel
there.
Nothing special.
A bit of rubber to stop it rubbing and vibration.
On my previous version on my blue P38 Range Rover, that was actually bolted down to these
panel bolts to keep the snorkel secure.
What it meant was that this had quite a long length and potentially for flex, so you can
see that's quite rigid there.
It's secured quite nicely down through here.
Now because of the shape of the bonnet you can't just hug the body, unfortunately, because
as you go up, the bonnet has that weird angle on the clam shell - you need to dodge that.
So that's why you've gotta stay away from the body there.
You can't hug it.
Also makes it easy to clean when you've gotta wash the car.
Nice little join there.
Goes right up to the roof where again, it's riv-nutted to the roof.
And you'll see that there is nothing but daylight all the way down.
This trim panel here has to come of if you ever change the windscreen in these things
that panel has to come off.
So, whatever you do, don't go chucking nuts and bolts through that little trim, because
it'll mean you've gotta take the snorkel off every time you gotta change the windscreen.
Up top you'll see the head is angled back towards the rear of the car a bit.
Almost 45 degrees there.
And the head is tapered back.
Now this sock is to reduce the effect of rain coming into the snorkel head.
The taper, the 45 degree angle, towards the rear of the car, it's also to stop mud.
You can see just here, there's remnants of mud that's been flicked up when I've been
4wding.
Now if it was facing straight back like that, these tyres are gonna kick up some mud because
they've got a fair bit of bloody tread on them!
And that mud is going to come up and go straight into there, down into the airbox and wherever
else it could block up in here, you know what mud is like once it hardens.
Now I've got a sock on here, a lot of you are going "what the bloody hell have you got
a sock on the end of your snorkel for you dick head"?
That's to stop rain water from coming in.
What I've found out on my previous P38 Range Rover which was a 3" stainless snorkel (this
one is a 4") is that when it's torrential rain, and I'm talking lots and lots of rain,
the big lungs on the 4.6 sucks water straight in there without problem, even if there's
a taper on the head.
What I found, by putting a sock on there is that the water hits the sock and runs down
and drains off.
Just one way to prevent getting water in there, and that is the reason that you will see a
little bit of dirty water in here, it's because it pelted down with rain and I've come home
from a trip without the sock on and managed to get enough water in this airbox that it
has drenched the air filter and snuffed the motor out.
Luckily it didn't suck it past here, but yeah it was enough to make the engine stop running
by itself without ingesting water, so I was very thankful for that.
I would highly recommend you keep that drain in there if you do a snorkel.
Seal everything else up - seal all the pipework through here and make sure that's dandy, because
you don't want to go through a water crossing and fill this airbox up with water from the
front of the car.
You want that water if anywhere, to come through the snorkel.
I can tell you now that this doesn't ingest water through deep crossings, I've been up
to window depth in multiple crossings and opened the lid after the crossings and there's
been no water in there.
At all.
So that's a bit of an insight as to what's gone on here.
See if I can look in here for you.
You probably won't see anything.
I can't see anything!
That's it guys!
It's not the prettiest thing to look at, but it's a lot better looking than the Terrafirma
one, I'll tell you that!
And it's very functional, and having the 4" it's a lot quieter (air velocity noise) than
what the 3" was, so if you're going to do it, do it once and do it right, I recommend
the 4".
So guys I just wanted to say thanks for pushing me to get that done, there's a few of you
who've been asking what it's all about, so yeah now I've done that video I hope more
of you get out and do it!
I think they're a great thing and the Terrafirma snorkel (and no offense to Terrafirma because
they do make some good products) but theirs looks like shit!
It look atrocious, and granted the staineless one that's on my P38 Range Rover isn't the
prettiest thing around, but it's a darn site better looking and it works, and it's got
a good volume, so if you've done engine swaps - LS motor, things like that, then it'll probably
work well, there's plenty of volume there, even for turbocharged motors.
I want to see a few more!
If you guys have got any ideas for things you want me to knock up a video on, I'll get
to it!
Still working on the 2" Suspension Lift one - there's one more thing I've got left to
do before I'm happy to put up a video.
Same with the tyre review, I'm just waiting for the right time!
As can see it's lovely out there, but it's also 35 degrees, and about 90% humidity, so
it's quite hot to be taking the wheels off my car right now!
We'll get there!
Hopefully once I get some cool days.
Thanks very much, and I'll see you around the traps!
Happy New Year guys!