Thought it'd be a good topic to cover.
Be nice to see how those in other countries do it.
I'll start I guess.
This is on my TD
This is a vew from the engine bay with the aux battery removed and the Toyota inlet ducting removed. The large hole towards the front of the inner guard (right hand side of photo) is where the ducting used to enter the engine bay
This is a view from under the guard with the hose from the snorkel and the Toyota inlet ducting removed (the round black pipe lookin bit is the outlet for the snorkel, I'm using a Safari snorkel)
This is the standard Toyota inlet ducting that I removed. The join half way round the 180 bend is where it entered the engine bay. The clean bit is from inside the engine bay, the dirty bit is under the guard.
This is the new hole I cut. I put heavy duty fuel hose around the hole as a gromet after fileing the hole out so when the fitting went thru (with gromet in place) it is a tightish fit. Hopefully this will reduce wear.
This is the fitting I made. I made it from 65mm PVC down pipe (stormwater/plumbers pipe) using a 90 (well 88 really) degree bend and some strait pipe. The clamp is a clamp for down pipe on a house. The metal braket on the clamp is scrap metal from the hole I cut. On final fittment, I glued and siliconed all joins
This is what it looks like fitted up from under the guard. No fuel hose yet cause this is trial fitting.
And from inside the engine bay.
This is what it looks like from inside the engine bay with the hose between my fitting and the air cleaner in place. (I've also fitted the aux battery)
This is how I modded the air cleaner. I placed a peice of the PVC pipe inside the inlet pipe. I had to turn it down by 1mm to get a good fit (bitch of a job and a few goes on a lathe). I glued and fibreglassed (as opposed to just silicone) it in hopeing for durability. The fibreglassing hasn't been done in this foto.
This is the whole shebang fitted (before final painting and detailing)
The reason for my making this is to get a better, watertight path to the air filter from the snorkel. I was also trying for a straiter path for air hopeing for better performance and economy.
It's water tight alright, cause when I capped the top of the snorkel, the engine stalled.
Economy improved from 13.5 l/ 100km to 12.5l/ 100km the very next fill with no further changes and the same driving style and locations. I'm keeping an eye on this to how it goes.
Performance. This one is a bit unclear as I compared it to a TD prado like mine, but with no snokel at all.
0 - 60 times went down slightly by less than 1/2 a second, but roll on 80 - 100 times are nearly 1 second quicker
Even if there is no real performance gain, the fact it is now water tight (like a fishes bum), I'm happy

Be nice to see how those in other countries do it.
I'll start I guess.
This is on my TD
This is a vew from the engine bay with the aux battery removed and the Toyota inlet ducting removed. The large hole towards the front of the inner guard (right hand side of photo) is where the ducting used to enter the engine bay

This is a view from under the guard with the hose from the snorkel and the Toyota inlet ducting removed (the round black pipe lookin bit is the outlet for the snorkel, I'm using a Safari snorkel)

This is the standard Toyota inlet ducting that I removed. The join half way round the 180 bend is where it entered the engine bay. The clean bit is from inside the engine bay, the dirty bit is under the guard.

This is the new hole I cut. I put heavy duty fuel hose around the hole as a gromet after fileing the hole out so when the fitting went thru (with gromet in place) it is a tightish fit. Hopefully this will reduce wear.

This is the fitting I made. I made it from 65mm PVC down pipe (stormwater/plumbers pipe) using a 90 (well 88 really) degree bend and some strait pipe. The clamp is a clamp for down pipe on a house. The metal braket on the clamp is scrap metal from the hole I cut. On final fittment, I glued and siliconed all joins

This is what it looks like fitted up from under the guard. No fuel hose yet cause this is trial fitting.

And from inside the engine bay.

This is what it looks like from inside the engine bay with the hose between my fitting and the air cleaner in place. (I've also fitted the aux battery)

This is how I modded the air cleaner. I placed a peice of the PVC pipe inside the inlet pipe. I had to turn it down by 1mm to get a good fit (bitch of a job and a few goes on a lathe). I glued and fibreglassed (as opposed to just silicone) it in hopeing for durability. The fibreglassing hasn't been done in this foto.

This is the whole shebang fitted (before final painting and detailing)

The reason for my making this is to get a better, watertight path to the air filter from the snorkel. I was also trying for a straiter path for air hopeing for better performance and economy.
It's water tight alright, cause when I capped the top of the snorkel, the engine stalled.
Economy improved from 13.5 l/ 100km to 12.5l/ 100km the very next fill with no further changes and the same driving style and locations. I'm keeping an eye on this to how it goes.
Performance. This one is a bit unclear as I compared it to a TD prado like mine, but with no snokel at all.
0 - 60 times went down slightly by less than 1/2 a second, but roll on 80 - 100 times are nearly 1 second quicker
Even if there is no real performance gain, the fact it is now water tight (like a fishes bum), I'm happy

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