TopoRanger's Overland Ranger Build

[TopoRanger]

I think you nailed it, its primarily useful for convoy duty. I know you can make them beneficial for water crossings, but that usually requires routing all your breathers into said snorkel among the other waterproofing.

My main beef with the snorkels i see for sale here is that they're just molded plastic, not the nice aluminum ones you see on the Aussie rigs...

mine will be 4” stainless with a duck bill drain pipes into an aluminum airbox.

I’ve had a snorkel on my wrangler for quite a while and the difference between stock intake and the snorkel was very different. But I also didn’t have the typical snorkel top piece. It was from snorkel upgrades and it would deflect a lot of the crap in the air. Also my jeep was in quite a bit of convoys and also solo stuff. It saved my ass in a water crossing in Oregon. So I believe in them. I don’t like the plastic ones on any vehicle but the wranglers, just my personal preference, that’s why I’ll be making my own out of stainless. Haven’t decided on powder coating or not…. I guess it depends on how the welds turn out and if I can successfully finish them smooth haha. I don’t really care where the stock intake is now either.

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[TopoRanger]

And as you can see it’s not on the top of the accessory list I want to build because I’ve had this crap before I moved to Montana haha.

Sliders and finish my bumper is the focus right now.

 

[Rhino]

mine will be 4” stainless with a duck bill drain pipes into an aluminum airbox.

I’ve had a snorkel on my wrangler for quite a while and the difference between stock intake and the snorkel was very different. But I also didn’t have the typical snorkel top piece. It was from snorkel upgrades and it would deflect a lot of the crap in the air. Also my jeep was in quite a bit of convoys and also solo stuff. It saved my ass in a water crossing in Oregon. So I believe in them. I don’t like the plastic ones on any vehicle but the wranglers, just my personal preference, that’s why I’ll be making my own out of stainless. Haven’t decided on powder coating or not…. I guess it depends on how the welds turn out and if I can successfully finish them smooth haha. I don’t really care where the stock intake is now either.

i agree with what you are saying about a snorkel..
my experience is from my 13 tacoma before i had a snorkel my air box would always get covered in crap, thankfully never making it past the filter but the oem tacoma intake was just in a poor spot in the fender. once i put the snorkel on my truck i had less mud and other crap build up in my airbox and i also sealed my airbox and rerouted all my breathers and never had issues taking it through water up to the hood multiple times. the snorkel saved my ass so many times back in the day of doing stupid stuff lol.

id like one for my f150 (mainly for the looks because overland cool haha) buuut the plastic ones are for the raptor and look awful and the aluminum ones even thou the airbox is roughly the same from the ecos and the 5.0! they are only for the 5.0s and are 1700 bucks!

 

[Onemig]

@TopoRanger , How's the project progressing? I'm really eager to see how it looks now...

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