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Snokel tops---turning them round?

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Evilgoat:

--- Quote from: "bilge rat" ---been out in bad rain which aint hard this year and checked the air filter to see iff any water has been sucked up. always bone dry. like said the safari top is designed to expell the water. blasting into deep water it does get very close to or into the snorkel top but is a little reckles doing this anyway. did see somewhere where someone tried turning it 180 degree round and when they braked the water in the rain gutter ran down & and was sucked up through the snorkel ?. the worst ive got mine was blasting down the a 14 in a storm plowing through water spraying it all over the n/s of the car. was without a snorkel and the filter was well wet. think iff ya carefull and check the filter after heavy rain use you'd be o.k. aparently k&n filter are better than the paper type of filter for keeping the water out . .. alan....
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I think with the Vitara one you'd have to be very unlucky to get water in from just spraythe bends in the snorkel should stop any light spray and the exit is again, quite a turn. On top of that theres a baffle in the filter too that should stop light spray.

auf_wiedersehen_pet:

--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---
--- Quote from: "mobi" ---i think you'll find it's the ram air thing some engines over air to fuel mix.(does that make sense?)
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Its possible I guess but unlikeley. Not seen the holes on mine that abyssdj is on about. Had to fit a brain on mine asit really did collect a fair bit of water when facing forward in heavy rain. Normally it faces backwards.
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An ECU for a snorkel - where can I get one or are they as elusive as the ducks?

skip:
Some owners of older LPG converted vehicles turn around the snokle tops cos otherwise the mixture gets upset, mainly due needing a vacume under all conditions.

Ja1983:
hmm.. getting interesting!

perhaps the filter oil you get with K & N`s would work on a paper filter, and aid in the stoppage of water, if this is a problem!?

LOL at the turned one collecting out of the gutter!  :lol:

having thought about the water problem, long wet drives in heavy rain may benefit from turning round, but i recon the odd splash in here and there isnt going to do much damae, consider the course 1 drop has to take...
1 - get in throgh the opening
2 - pass down the pipe, round the first bend, another bit, and into the filter box, around the filter box and meet mr filter!
3 - if managed to breach the filter, water then has a turbo spinning away, bit like a blender...
4 - the runs of pipe to and from the intercooler, not forgetting the intercooler.
5. the manifold, though the head and into the cylinder...

i find it hard to believe that anything more than the tiniest bit of mist is likely to make it far enough to be a problem...

...and agreed, any forced air effect is unlikely to make a difference! :wink:

rollazuki:
Dont add K&N filter oil to a paper filter. Itll stop working. The reason K&N use sticky oil, is because the filter is a fairly open weave cotton, and the oil catches contaminants as they pass over it and sticks then down. On a tight weave paper filter itll gum it up.
I know from riding bikes with open filters, they 'steam' a bit from the exhaust when it rains and the filters get wet, but they have no running issues.
I dont know how much water it would take to Hydraulic an engine(not much Id guess) but Id say it'd take a hell of a lot of water mist to do it.

If youre so worried, fit a one way valve to the bottom of the airbox/filter housing to release collected water. Most trial bike(and usually road bike)airboxes have one. Its like a ducks bill rubber thingumywhatsit. It allows water to drain out, but stays closed to incoming water. Problem solved!
Do I get a prize :lol:

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