By Brad Bradford (Brad) on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 07:50 am: Edit

I know that Snorkels are pretty much useless for wading with gas engines. But do snorkels increase gas mileage at all. If so where can you get them and how much should I expect to pay? Thanks

Brad

By Ron on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 08:13 am: Edit

Snorkels help with gas engines in that you do not get water into the intake so the worst that happens is you fry the electrics rather than hydrolock the engine. Gas milage, is kinda a wash as the snorkel has to be a really wide diameter to get as much air as the stock set up (they are not) but you get cold air with a snorkel.

Ron

By yo on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 09:20 am: Edit

it sure is a conversation starter with people you dont know....

--helloo... what's that?

ohh that's a snorkel... for wading in deep water.. and for fresh air..

--you take that $50K disco into a lake?
are you FU...ING crazy...

and then they leave you with half of your sentence or half way to get your GUN...

hehe

By Mike on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 02:55 pm: Edit

Rover Accessories and Rovers North sell the Mantec snorkel. That is the one that I like the most. It runs about $400.00. ARB produces a 'Safari Snorkel' as well, but I can't tell you much about it.

LoL,
Mike

By Tom on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 08:01 am: Edit

The cheapest places I found for the ARB version are http://www.rocky-road.com/snorkel.html

and

http://4by4connection.com/landrover3.html