Flexible intake hose

Jake1996D1

Jake1996D1

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I need to find some 2.75" ID flexible duct type hose for my snorkel. The routing is pretty tight against the fender so it needs to be very flexible..

I did a couple google searches and came up empty handed - any suggestions?
 
fishEH

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Why don't you just use 3" hose and some sort of shim on the male ends? Heck, you could probably wrap the ends in electrical tape to make them 3"OD. I would think finding 3"ID hose would be easier than 2.75".
 
Jake1996D1

Jake1996D1

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fishEH said:
Why don't you just use 3" hose and some sort of shim on the male ends? Heck, you could probably wrap the ends in electrical tape to make them 3"OD. I would think finding 3"ID hose would be easier than 2.75".
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Yea it is easier and I may do that just figured I'd see if anybody else has a source for it before I ghetto it up :D
 
Jake1996D1

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Yea only issue is that there is like 0 room for anything more than a 90 cause the intake hole is on the side of the airbox.. I guess I could look at changing that too.. But the goal of finding the right size is then I can just drop it in and be done with it.. Kinda need it done before the antracite trip
 
Jake1996D1

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Probably still too big and I would still need the rest of the hose.. which is why I'd rather step it up to 3" and use a flexible duct type piece.. Here is what I am working with. The original piece if you have never seen the safari shorkel piece is a weird oval shaped Z piece of plastic. The gap between the hole and fender is like 4"

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I ended up going with a Spectre ricer intake. 3" with the end rubber piece attached and 2.75" without it. Plan on sealing it up and adding some hose clamps today.

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Jake1996D1

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slanginsanjuan said:
nice. im confused...you've been rolling with a "fake" snorkel?
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haha yea pretty much. The RTE Towers hit the bottom of the air box so I had to move it forward and then the plastic tube they supply was too short so I had to find something longer
 
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