RealBeale

RealBeale

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I'm currently having a new batch of intakes made.
It's a minimum order of 5 with a unit cost of £130 each. A little more than I was expecting.:eek:
I know Freelanderstorm sold them for £200 and sold every one they had, most going to Portugal according to Anthony who used to run Freelanderstorm.
I cannot justify that figure of £200 especially when other members on here can produce things like quality exhaust guards for that sort of price.Also it doesn't come with any "plumbing", although that makes it universal for all 4 engines.

As the batch is nearly complete and as I will have to shell out a bloody fortune, I'm going to offer them here for unit price of £130 + post.
I will put my old one on Ebay in a bid to at least get some interest going and gauge what Joe public want to pay and maybe put a new one on if the first goes well.If they go on Ebay for more than £130 with people bidding against each other then that's all fine and dandy, but on the forum - I wouldn't feel right about trying to sell them for more than the cost price.I simply cannot justify it.
 
If I had the funds at the moment i'd have loved one of these.
Can the mould not be inverted for use on the right for us TD4 lot or would it impact too much on driver vision?
 
SES88 said:
If I had the funds at the moment i'd have loved one of these.
Can the mould not be inverted for use on the right for us TD4 lot or would it impact too much on driver vision?
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TBH I was thinking about it. But the cost involved in doing that , especially now I know how much they cost to produce, just wouldn't be justified.
Plus I don't see any point. The air intake on the TD4 is at the rear on the left hand side of the engine.(rear right when looking under the bonnet). The plastic ducting in my opinion was overdone so it could incorporate the intercooler pipe too and thus exits the offside wing. For my intake to be on the off-side would mean far too much distance from the top of the intake all the way round the front of the engine and round to the rear. See the pic, I think it will explain it better. Red is the route air would have to take if the air intake system remained standard. Yellow is the intercooler pipe(standard/none standard position). Orange is the new route to the air would take if the system was modified. The Intercooler pipe would remain in more or less the same place , just either as standard incorporated to the air intake or on it's own with a stainless pipe and silicone hoses.
Plus if it is modified , the air intake can be made water tight. I had a Mantec one but never fitted it. The way it enters the wing makes it a waste of time if looking at it being watertight. But then it was only meant to draw air and not for keeping water out.
 
Yeah I never thought of removing the pipework, does make more sense to do it that way! Although I don't have much space for pipework on the NS but could be made to work, if I could spare the funds for one of these.
 
Spacemonkey... said:
Does it make much wind noise at speed? I guess you can't hear it over the tyre drone, but..?
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I ran Wrangler A/TR's on my V6 and Avon road biased tyres on my silver Td4 and can say I've never noticed any wind noise from the snorkel ,even at 80mph but it is more aerodynamic than others on the market as it sits flush against the vehicle and follows the windscreen and windscreen pillar contours over the roof. Most snorkels are either round tube or rectangular in shape and sit rather proud to the side of the windscreen which will cause all sorts of turbulence, which creates the noise.
 
I would like one, but before I put my money in I would like to know,,
is there space on the passenger side to run the needed pipework to the
air intake on the right back corner of the engine??

I seem to think that there is minimal room between the
inner wing and the fuse box or the battery,
could it be routed under the fuse box??
 
Depends if you've got a FBH or not, there'll be a way, probably have to remove the wing to get it marked and cut properly though?
 
Would love one looks much better than the normal tube snokels,î just trying to figure out how it could fit on a td4. Looking quite tricky, how do you fit it to the windscreen pillar? And also how does it finish inside the wing? Is it like a round bit of pipe to attach other pipe to or does the snorkel act more as a cover and I would have to run a pipe right up the inside?
 
Ok. to answer (hopefully) a few questions.

I've had 3 of these fully plumbed in to 2 of my Td4's and one to my V6. The main problem is whether or not you have aircon as the pipes will be in the way. It is a tight squeeze but can be plumbed in successfully. These is no need to cut any metalwork, however this depends on how you wish to do the job. You can cut a hole just infront of the battery, again only if you don't have aircon. You could relocate you'r battery, not that hard to do, but where to fit it ? However, this method would provide more than enough space to fit the plumbing.
Or you could use the existing hole, as I have done , located between the battery and headlight.Once again, a problem if you have aircon fitted. BUT there is a way round this. More later.
I used steel pipe and silicone hoses. The route is shown on the pics . There are pics of where it all goes from the outside to where it would come out in the engine bay. There is also a pic of where to cut holes if relocating the battery.
I hope they make sense. Once fitted, the plastic inner wing hides everything. :)
 
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Is there a drain point at the bottom of the snorkel to let any accumulated water escape?
 
It can be bonded to the car, as I've done on my silver Td4, (but due to aircon , it's not plumbed in) using tigerseal, it'll never come off in the wind. Or bolted to the wing and riv-nutted above the door as on my rally Td4.
 
SES88 said:
Is there a drain point at the bottom of the snorkel to let any accumulated water escape?
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Wouldn't that be like making a hole in the bottom of a boat to let the water out?

(Thanks Laurel & Hardy)
 
Not looked ont interweb but M Sport had what looks like a disco or defender cylindrical air filter plumber into a V6 through a snorkel in an old copy of LRO .
U'll try ti find a link...
 
bukko said:
Wouldn't that be like making a hole in the bottom of a boat to let the water out?

(Thanks Laurel & Hardy)
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Haha, no no, some snorkels have a drain plug at the bottom which can be opened to let accumulated water, leaves and other sh!te out of the snorkel, as there's no other way to get it out...
 
bushwwacker said:
Not looked ont interweb but M Sport had what looks like a disco or defender cylindrical air filter plumber into a V6 through a snorkel in an old copy of LRO .
U'll try ti find a link...
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Yeah, for the rally Td4 I have a Disco 300 airbox as can be seen in the earlier posts.
Also people are putting too much emphasis on it being a snorkel rather than a Raised Air Intake. It is an alternative to the Mantec drainpipe which is also a raised air intake and not a snorkel.This , too , is not water tight as it is not designed to be.
People at shows kept asking me if i would sell them one,which is why I've had a batch made.
If anyone wants to use it as the basis for a snorkel, then they can, but to do so then they will have to waterproof the whole system the way they see fit.
As a raised air intake used on the road, as I'm sure 100% of the Mantec ones are, mine just need plumbing in.The original air filters will be fine.
As for drain holes, not really needed.They don't fill with water - atleast none of mine ever have.They tend not to accumulate water and if they did they would drain via the great big hole cut in them at the bottom where the pipework goes in.
 
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