Southdown Snorkel with safari plumbing

Another snorkel thread to add to all the others (sorry). This will probably be deemed as a mad thing to do, but it is the route I took to installing a snorkel on my D1 300tdi Jap import: We are off to morocco in November so I am using this as my excuse to fit a snorkel. I am not keen on the look of the safari one, but do like the look of the Southdown. I also want to fit a second battery in the space available in front of the air filter, and was not prepared to compromise on that. This meant that the Southdown could not be connected to the front of the air box as usual. I wanted to keep the 300tdi air box, therefor opted to combined 2 snorkels, but to keep costs down, bought a cheap imitation Safari snorkel off eBay and an un-finished Southdown also from eBay. The utilised bits from the safari is all the parts that fix to the air box with a side exit. The southdown flexi pipe then connects to the safari side exit pipe. I didn't need to remove the wing or the plastic inner wheel arch to fit the snorkel. The stainless Southdown pipe and brackets were then finished off with some black powder coat vinyl wrap also from eBay. So there you have it, not the cheapest way to fit a snorkel (but also not extremely expensive in my mind) and I know some people make their own, but it ticked all the boxes for me.

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Very neat. I fitted a Southdown to my Jap Import a couple of months ago and also plan to fit a second battery so I know I'll need to move the flexi from the front. What stopped me from using the side connector like you have was that I thought the MAF sensor would hit the EGR. Although my EGR is blanked it is still in place like yours but I can see from the photo that there's just enough room so that's good to know.

I plan to remove the EGR but because it's water cooled on the Jap cars I'll need a new lower rad hose as well as a top intercooler so I'll need to drop the coolant. I also need to remove the turbo as my wastegate is siezed so I think I'll do the whole lot in one go, coolant, hoses, EGR, snorkel and wastegate. looking forward to that day .

Good to see how it will look though so cheers for the photos.

RichardH said:

Very neat. I fitted a Southdown to my Jap Import a couple of months ago and also plan to fit a second battery so I know I'll need to move the flexi from the front. What stopped me from using the side connector like you have was that I thought the MAF sensor would hit the EGR. Although my EGR is blanked it is still in place like yours but I can see from the photo that there's just enough room so that's good to know.

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The MAF misses the EGR because I took the MAF bracket off and put a twist in it whilst it was held in a vice. There is also a similar mod that Space Dawg has spoken about where a bolt from the MAF is removed. I also offset the new bracket that now holds the air box in place, so it is slightly more to the wing than it should be.

RichardH said:

I plan to remove the EGR but because it's water cooled on the Jap cars I'll need a new lower rad hose as well as a top intercooler so I'll need to drop the coolant. I also need to remove the turbo as my wastegate is siezed so I think I'll do the whole lot in one go, coolant, hoses, EGR, snorkel and wastegate. looking forward to that .

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I will be keen to know how you get on with the removing the EGR as I would like to do the same, cheers.