Making a fiberglass snorkel.

[alex4640]

The inside surface would be a mirror image of the core. The smoother the core, the smoother the insides. However, I would not worry too much about the air flow due to the surface. The main air flow issues will come from the bends. Make the bends as gradual as possible and that will ensure the least amount of of pressure drop.

As far as ensuring that all the EPS is gone, that's easy. A small bottle of acetone (finger nail polish remover) will dissolve at least one cubic meter of EPS. Plus it works fast. Just keep recycling it back through the snorkel until you're sure.

 

[93Chewbacca]

Its a character from Star Wars, Return of the Jedi

Bib Fortuna I think

 

[cody c]

Beautiful work as usual haffi!

That looks like fun, maybe one day I wont always be fixing my 80 and will have time to build something like that on mine. Oh who am I kidding??

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Haffi, great work. I love the DIY attitude.

 

[B Legit]

Its a character from Star Wars, Return of the Jedi

Bib Fortuna I think

do you like Star Wars or something?

 

[93Chewbacca]

do you like Star Wars or something?

oh............. possibly

 

[ERG80]

good progress

 

[93Chewbacca]

Bib Fortuna clips (with goofy music)



Yes, your 80 looks much nicer than Bib Fortuna

 

[TexasJack]

You have a great looking cruiser. I am anxious to see the finished product. I would never have thought of doing this myself. I simply bought a safari snorkel. I can see from what you guys do to accomodate the huge tires you use that you have to learn to work with fiberglass. If it turns out anything like your fenders, it should be awesome.

 

[skintunes]

oh............. possibly

Fine line between Star Wars and Land Cruiser geeks- could you imagine the chaos if Luke's Land Speeder was called a Land Cruiser???

 

[haffi]

This thread is becoming a bit wierd

Updates on the snorkel are coming tonight

 

[yoopercharged]

affirmative. Are you doing the snorkel to increase gas mileage

 

[93Chewbacca]

This thread is becoming a bit wierd

Updates on the snorkel are coming tonight

Yes, sorry for the hijack looking forward to more pics of your awesome rig!

 

[B Legit]

I am glad that you are sticking with this Haffi, You didn't work on this on your birthday did you?

 

[haffi]

affirmative. Are you doing the snorkel to increase gas mileage

Noo, just want to be a little safer when crossing rivers.

 

[haffi]

I am glad that you are sticking with this Haffi, You didn't work on this on your birthday did you?

Yes, I´m happy about it too. I have been thinking about this for far too long, last year when I had the truck painted I was thinking about to make a snorkel as well. But then I became exhausted and decided to cancel it for a while.

I took a day off on my birthday

 

[haffi]

Time for another update.

Last night I took this project past the "no way to return" line. I drilled a huge hole (two huge holes in fact) into the fender and a few smaller ones as well.

At first I drilled a hole at the wrong place. There wasn´t enough space behind the fender for the pipe to pass. So I just drilled another hole

I welded 8mm nuts to pieces of sheet metal and bolted them in place from inside the fenders. Then I glued the "lid" that came off the wrong hole back in its place and glassed over.

I drilled a hole below the air intake hole and glassed a 12 mm pipe through that hole. The plan is to use that part of the snorkel as a water trap and that smaller pipe is to empty it. I´m going to route a hose with a valve on its end from that 12mm pipe.

Tonight I added three rivnuts to the top of the car, these three nuts will hold the top in its place.

Here you can finally see the air intake. I will find some kind of net to cover it. I will be able to reach those bolts through the air intake.

Hopefully I will close this thing again tomorrow and then I can start filling and sanding.

Fiberglassing is time consuming, you are always waiting for something to cure so when working on it you need to have another project on the side. Finishing this bike rack I started building earlier this spring has been my sideproject for the last few days.

 

[sky90]

Great work, as usual

Am thinking about swingouts that can be completely removed - quickly & without tools. Just wonder if you hv a sketch/more detail pics, thks

 

[Schwein]

absolutely awesome! may favorite cruiser on the whole forum keeps getting better! are you going to paint it color matched or go for an industrial black or something?

 

[Otamiway]

Haffi,

Great progress on the snorkel.. I like the bike rack too. The square red lights on your tail gate....are they factory or did you add them??

Thanks
Stu