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I am asking a new question about Snorkel, but I am not so sure about the result before doing the job. So it is better to post it here to ask bros.
My short story
Firstly, my wife is an anti-modified Prado. She absolutely hates all the modification that I created for the car, even if they are: hometheatre system, 240V system, power windows, power mirrors, LED all around the car, massage system,..... Whenever I put the modification on the car, or I intend to do it, she tries to prevent that happens. If the mod done, then we argue for a long time, and she claims about that for a long long time. What the hell my women even she does not know anything about the car, and even if I explained many times that I created it better for her when she drive the car next year :evil:
Secondly, she claims that she REALLY HATES the Snokel on other cars (including Prados) that she watched on the road. Even if I tried to explain a lot for her but nothing worked.
==>> Of course, consequently, she NEVER WANTS to see that Snorkel appear on our Prado. MY GHOST :evil:
Finally, I have to accept that fact. I can not add the real Snorkel into the car, at least at this moment, just to keep the family stay stable with the happy smile on my lion's face (may be when we travel somewhere else and we stuck in water, she would think again, but should be long long time in the future as we don't have much time to find water for off-road).
HOWEVER, I still want to have a Snorkel in my car that she never knows it is there.
MY PLAN:
After thinking for a long time, I decide to make a crazy plan that the snorkel will go to the center of the front panel, some where under the hole of front glass wiper.
I take off the driver side cover on the fender. I found the way that my Prado breathes.
I intend to create an external plastic pipe (or rubber pipe) from the last point of the original pipe (big red circle), then run that external pipe along the fender and up to the surface just under the front cover above the front glass wiper ( The blue circle), of course I will have to drill a hole for the pipe where the blue circle is, but at least my lion will NEVER KNOWS that it is what I did because she never looks what is under the hood
As I thought that, this place will have good air, also it does not have much water even if with the heavy rain or whenever we clean the car. And I can make the pipe curve with my modification, so the water has no way to come into the pipe.
My questions are:
- Is this good enough for a snorkel?
- The height of the pipe is quite acceptable. As far as I imagine, the water can not enter that part in anyway except the level of water is higher than the hood. In this case, I think that even with a real Snorkel, the car should stop because there is all water above the engine - Do I think right?
- The original plastic pipe has one small hole under the bottom (the small red circle in the first pic). Is this the hole for water goes through if water has any chance to get into the original air pipe?
Because I intend to cover this hole when I do my conversion. Actually if I still keep this hole there, the water will get into it easier.
- Can I replace the big plastic pipe there and just add a long plastic pipe from the point where the air filter start working on the fender? Is this option better than keeping the original part? Will this affect to my Prado's breathing?
Thank you very much for your reading and reply. I really appreciate.
My short story
Firstly, my wife is an anti-modified Prado. She absolutely hates all the modification that I created for the car, even if they are: hometheatre system, 240V system, power windows, power mirrors, LED all around the car, massage system,..... Whenever I put the modification on the car, or I intend to do it, she tries to prevent that happens. If the mod done, then we argue for a long time, and she claims about that for a long long time. What the hell my women even she does not know anything about the car, and even if I explained many times that I created it better for her when she drive the car next year :evil:
Secondly, she claims that she REALLY HATES the Snokel on other cars (including Prados) that she watched on the road. Even if I tried to explain a lot for her but nothing worked.
==>> Of course, consequently, she NEVER WANTS to see that Snorkel appear on our Prado. MY GHOST :evil:
Finally, I have to accept that fact. I can not add the real Snorkel into the car, at least at this moment, just to keep the family stay stable with the happy smile on my lion's face (may be when we travel somewhere else and we stuck in water, she would think again, but should be long long time in the future as we don't have much time to find water for off-road).
HOWEVER, I still want to have a Snorkel in my car that she never knows it is there.
MY PLAN:
After thinking for a long time, I decide to make a crazy plan that the snorkel will go to the center of the front panel, some where under the hole of front glass wiper.
I take off the driver side cover on the fender. I found the way that my Prado breathes.
I intend to create an external plastic pipe (or rubber pipe) from the last point of the original pipe (big red circle), then run that external pipe along the fender and up to the surface just under the front cover above the front glass wiper ( The blue circle), of course I will have to drill a hole for the pipe where the blue circle is, but at least my lion will NEVER KNOWS that it is what I did because she never looks what is under the hood
As I thought that, this place will have good air, also it does not have much water even if with the heavy rain or whenever we clean the car. And I can make the pipe curve with my modification, so the water has no way to come into the pipe.
My questions are:
- Is this good enough for a snorkel?
- The height of the pipe is quite acceptable. As far as I imagine, the water can not enter that part in anyway except the level of water is higher than the hood. In this case, I think that even with a real Snorkel, the car should stop because there is all water above the engine - Do I think right?
- The original plastic pipe has one small hole under the bottom (the small red circle in the first pic). Is this the hole for water goes through if water has any chance to get into the original air pipe?
Because I intend to cover this hole when I do my conversion. Actually if I still keep this hole there, the water will get into it easier.
- Can I replace the big plastic pipe there and just add a long plastic pipe from the point where the air filter start working on the fender? Is this option better than keeping the original part? Will this affect to my Prado's breathing?
Thank you very much for your reading and reply. I really appreciate.
Matty80
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