I've been avoiding snorkels for years. Hated the look of the Safari, saw very little competition or ingenuity in design, and ultimately thought I'd fabricate one myself. That is until I saw this one. It's made by a guy in Israel and he does small batches (currently only FJC and GX470). ACC Garage was going to do a group buy, so I said heck yeah. That looks sleek and not like a clunky piece of roto-molded garbage can plastic. This won't be a step by step install, more of a overview and analysis of the install and product.
It came in an was already prepped for paint. It's made of fiberglass and is skimmed and primed. Mounting hardware is embedded in the fiberglass and the kit consists of the main snorkel, two fiberglass elbow joints and section of corrugated rubber tubing. The parts kit comes with nuts/washers, but I can't remember if I picked up the hose clamps myself or if they came with it. There is also a paperboard template that lines up with the trailing fender edge near the door hinge. The template had some vagueness to it, I did my best to "compromise" somewhere in the middle of all the visual cue lines.
I drilled my holes and did some test fitting. It didn't go very well. The vertical portion seemed to be warped and made the intake section stand off the roof of the truck. It's all supposed to lie flat against the A-pillar and roof. If I made it lie flat against the roof then it pulled away from the fender. Holes had been drilled, I was going to make this work.
I got the internal parts fitted, but required a short section of silicon tube to adapt to the air intake hose. I had a prefilter "dust spinner" installed in here before and the stock intermediate piece was ditched a long time ago. So the silicon tube filled the gap. I slathered on the FIPG and placed the tube clamps.
I opted to run this as a test fit for a bit to see if the fiberglass would be willing to acquiesce over time. So I bolted it to the fender in the 4 provided places, plumbed the tubing and then zip tied the top of the snorkel. This was necessary because the two studs and bracket that normally go on a factory roof or roof rack needed to be redesigned around my Prinsu roof rack arrangement. As you can see, this didn't stop me from taking it out on the trails before it was fully mounted. It got some pinstriping but never took a heavy hit.
It came in an was already prepped for paint. It's made of fiberglass and is skimmed and primed. Mounting hardware is embedded in the fiberglass and the kit consists of the main snorkel, two fiberglass elbow joints and section of corrugated rubber tubing. The parts kit comes with nuts/washers, but I can't remember if I picked up the hose clamps myself or if they came with it. There is also a paperboard template that lines up with the trailing fender edge near the door hinge. The template had some vagueness to it, I did my best to "compromise" somewhere in the middle of all the visual cue lines.
I drilled my holes and did some test fitting. It didn't go very well. The vertical portion seemed to be warped and made the intake section stand off the roof of the truck. It's all supposed to lie flat against the A-pillar and roof. If I made it lie flat against the roof then it pulled away from the fender. Holes had been drilled, I was going to make this work.
I got the internal parts fitted, but required a short section of silicon tube to adapt to the air intake hose. I had a prefilter "dust spinner" installed in here before and the stock intermediate piece was ditched a long time ago. So the silicon tube filled the gap. I slathered on the FIPG and placed the tube clamps.
I opted to run this as a test fit for a bit to see if the fiberglass would be willing to acquiesce over time. So I bolted it to the fender in the 4 provided places, plumbed the tubing and then zip tied the top of the snorkel. This was necessary because the two studs and bracket that normally go on a factory roof or roof rack needed to be redesigned around my Prinsu roof rack arrangement. As you can see, this didn't stop me from taking it out on the trails before it was fully mounted. It got some pinstriping but never took a heavy hit.