Southdown snorkel fabrication

Hi all, I'm looking into building one from scratch, anyone done it before. It will be done totally from ally but I was trying to work out two things what is the internal id of the pipe and what angle to bend the pipe where it enters the wing. From photos it looks like about 30 degrees. Any help would be great, cheers

i think yu will find it is copyright.


cant yu measure an angle?

Fair point, I will rephrase, If I was to use ally tube as a raised air intake how far could I bend it before the air flow would bottleneck and become to restricted at full revs?

That would depend on the manufacturing technique and the bend radius.

I have nothing to measure as I only know people with surfari style

I would guess the br is about 250mm I was planning on actually cutting and welding the angle as I don't have access to a mandril only a hand one and it's seen better days.

I'm open to alternative suggestions, I have access to free ally pipe and I'm a qualified ally welder so making my own makes sense but not sure of the best way to go about it

Have a read of my thread here:-

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/snorkel-air-filter-165011-8.html

Might help

My Southdown has an OD of 63mm, at a guess the ID would be +/- 60mm.

The pipe I used was 60mm ID

I tried to get the pipe made but would have cost much more than the price Southdown charge for the pipe alone

If you are fabricating then fair enough but of having made it's a false economy, I built it from parts over a short while and in the end should have just bought the kit in the first place, thought I was being clever/resourceful

Awesome cheers! All I have to do now is wait for a dry day to go mess about with it all!