safari snorkel

Hi im looking at safari snorkels at the moment but they seem very pricey.

There are some safari "style" ones that the seller is claiming are just as good and at a fraction of the price:

Landrover discovery 1 300 tdi / v8 snorkel great quality ABS model safari | eBay

Land Rover Discovery 1 V8 / 300 ABS Safari Snorkel kit | eBay

Has anyone any experience with the snorkels? are the cheap ones worth avoiding or are the genuine ones over priced?

Also Ive found one online from a 2.5 tdi but the seller doesnt know if it will fit mine?

Mines a 1996 discovery 3.9 V8 fitted with ABS.

Cheers.

I doubt very much if a TDi one will fit your V8 they are totally different

I don't think the safari style are made of the same quality material as the original safari ones,is the airbox on the v8 in the same place as the tdi?

I bought a southdown style snorkel as there was no way i was paying the price for a new safari.

Yep I was under the impression that they were pretty vehicle specific and I even got given one that a bloke mistakenly bought for his 3.5 but as mine had ABS it wouldn't fit (it was about 6 years a go and i was a lot more clueless).

A lot on ebay say "fits both the V8 and TDI models" so thats what got me thinking.

I've also been looking at those ebay ones, I have a 300tdi abs which they say will fit, but like you I'm not sure about the quality.

I think the 300tdi and the V8 have the same airbox so as long as you get the ABS version I think it will fit.

I was about to order one of the 'safari style' ones but read a thread on here about the amount of modifying that the parts needed in order to fit and that put me off. I ordered a southdown off ebay, around £140, only 1 hole to cut and all fitted in a couple of hours. Really pleased with the southdown.

mrnice said:

Yep I was under the impression that they were pretty vehicle specific and I even got given one that a bloke mistakenly bought for his 3.5 but as mine had ABS it wouldn't fit (it was about 6 years a go and i was a lot more clueless).

A lot on ebay say "fits both the V8 and TDI models" so thats what got me thinking.

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The difference in quality of material is enormous: Safari - Snorkels

i have a lrparts safari style, fitting was nice and easy and i didn't have to modify anything out of the ordinary, its taken some hammering and it still works!

I was unsure about what to go for and weighed everything up about 2 months ago:

Expensive mantec or safari style - £200 upwards = Too pricey

Homemade one - £50ish quid (Allowing for bracketry, pipework, connectors etc. = Expensive and time consuming, especially if it turns out badly

Cheaper made one - £100 quid - Looks better than home made, cheap enough to not break the bank, should have more confidence in it working than homemade one, = Best option

So I bought the LRParts safari style snorkel, and it was a bitch to fit, since one or two of the parts required altering, and there was a tense moment, where the template had made me drill the holes in the wrong place and I didn't think the snorkel would fit (a bad workman blames his tools, bla bla bla). However it looks the part, works nicely, and seems better made than I expected given the bad press cheaper snorkels get with regard to plastic quality etc. If I was planning on a long term trip to somewhere very hot, I would have definitely gone for a better quality one, however in rainy old england, worrying about a the longevity of plastic under high UV stress is something I don't really care for. Especially when the snorkel might actually only be used for deep wading a few times a year.

One comment though, is that my fuel economy seems to have suffered slightly, and the engine does seem to lack a bit of power. Could be down to something different, or it may be that I have a blockage in the air intake, but something you may want to consider. On the other hand, some people report an engine which breathes better once a snorkel is fitted. I plan to swap the air ram top, to a pre-cleaner type top and see if that makes a difference

Anyway, good luck. Thats my two pence.