CAI with snorkel?

[Shrek]

Hi all

New to the forum (link to intro below) and excited to be here.

This may already have been posted/answered but I haven't been able to find it through searching the forum. I'm curious if there is a CAI that will cooperate with a snorkel? I'm not stuck on a CAI brand as long as it's effective and a quality product.

You inputs are all appreciated.

http://xterranation.org/showthread.php?4377-Quick-and-easy-intro

 

[caseycamby]

Pretty much, a snorkel IS a CAI. It would actually work better than just a cone inside the engine bay because it's not taking the air from the heat of the engine but the coolness of the air that comes through your windows

 

[Shrek]

I guess more specifically, are there snorkels available that utilize Volant or KN filters? None of the snorkels I have researched state specifically. I suppose they simply feed into the air box?

 

[caseycamby]

Yeah the snorkel just bolts to the outside and the plumbing is normally ran straight into the stock air box.. I believe I've heard of people using the Volant with a snorkel but I don't know a whole lot about it.. I'll let someone with a better understanding chime it

 

[xterror04]

The volant intake makes it difficult to connect a snorkel, you can use about any other cai and run an k&n appollo filter and it works great with the snorkel

 

[yellowx16]

this is weird..i was honestly JUST thinking of this, and then i saw this thread. I have a k&n intake and i thought i never planned on getting a snorkel...but that might change. I think your best bet would be a volant of the stock airbox. I was trying to think of a way i could enclose my k&n though. Some people also have used the k&n apollo enclosed air intake.

 

[Xterrafauss]

Hola!!!!


Sooooo a snorkel can be made to work with a Volant but it has to be a custom mounting. They do not sell a bolt on style adapter for first gen snorks that I know of....they do I believe for second gens though. Plumbing a snorkel is usually a custom DIY type thing and usually, as Casey said, goes right ino a stock SEALED AND AIR TIGHT air box.

A snorkel however is a true "cold air intake".

As to people on here that have done a Volant to snork Jeromy or Intender has I know for sure. But he did a full DIY snorkel (which is pretty beastly if I do say so myself).


Hope that helped a bit. KCCO!

 

[Intender]

As said I made an adapter for my volant to connect 2.5" pvc snorkel to it. It just takes a little creativity and a lot of fiberglass. It was my first time playing with fiberglass, but it worked out well in the end. For me the hardest part of the whole process with the volant was sealing up the box.

If I had wanted to spend the extra money on a real snorkel I could have made an adapter for that as well, but alas I am cheap. you could also order one of the k&n apollo filters and use the supplied flex tube that comes with it to plumb the snorkel. It pretty much provides you a sealed system right out of the box which is nice. Only reason I didnt go with the apollo filter was that my intake hose was cracked very badly and I needed a new hose and the volant came out cheaper for me in the end than the apollo and a new intake pipe. The only downfall to the apollo is that its diameter is smaller than the diameter of the throttle body, but its still larger than that of the stock airbox. If you go with an aftermarket snorkel it wont matter either way since the diameter at its smallest point is also smaller than the throttle body, and will be the limiting factor for air flow.

 

[TJTJ]

Of the available CAI, the Volant is the best of them, and has a closed air box. I used Furnco fittings to run the snork's tube into the Volant. If you don't have a BL, its actually a straight shot. If you have a BL, the holes from the fender into the engine bay are off by the amount of the BL (I had a BL...hence the use of the flexible fittings).

Its just a duct into the box, not rocket science.

 

[Intender]

Of the available CAI, the Volant is the best of them, and has a closed air box. I used Furnco fittings to run the snork's tube into the Volant. If you don't have a BL, its actually a straight shot. If you have a BL, the holes from the fender into the engine bay are off by the amount of the BL (I had a BL...hence the use of the flexible fittings).

Its just a duct into the box, not rocket science.

But even then TJ, if yours was like mine, you had to seal the box where the tube comes through for the intake, and you had to make a new lid for the box and use a ton of caulk to seal it up. even with the lid screwed down as tight as it could go I had spots with almost 1/4 gap. I fixed most of the gaps by heating the plastic with a heat gun, but still had to use caulk. Dont get me wrong, I love my volant and I feel that of all the options on the market it will by far provide the best air flow especially when paired with a snorkel. However its not a simple process get the box ready for a snorkel.

I had also forgot that you used the furnco adapter for yours. that would work well with the aftermarket snorkel from somewhere like AC, but I dont know if it would work with the cheaper ebay snorkel or custom pvc snorkel.

 

[Xterraforce]

I replaced my stock airbox with a K&N Apollo. It's a cone filter inside a fully sealed, bolted together housing. The incoming air end matches up nicely with the 3 inch tubing from my snorkel making for a clean easy install. Just remember to drill a hole for your intake air charge sensor or your fuel mileage will be amazingly bad.

 

[TJTJ]

I replaced my stock airbox with a K&N Apollo. It's a cone filter inside a fully sealed, bolted together housing. The incoming air end matches up nicely with the 3 inch tubing from my snorkel making for a clean easy install. Just remember to drill a hole for your intake air charge sensor or your fuel mileage will be amazingly bad.

I have not seen the Apollo, and, it looks like it would be easier to plumb into the snorkel intake than the larger boxes.

The Volant was the only really closed box before this...I like this better, especially if you can fit a real air filter int there that actualy filters out dirt better than the normal K&N filters.

 

[Shrek]

Great info here. I'll need to take a look at the K&N Apollo.

 

[NMTerras]

The apollo is perfect for the application. Fits perfectly running flex hose from apollo (included) out through engine bay into fender. Xterror04 and i have both done it and theres a thread on here somewhere. Search ebay snorkel mod


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[BKxterra718]

Yea MADX is runnin the Apollo inside a volant i believe. My buddy here in Brooklyn helped me build a plexiglass aquarium for my knn filter. Sealed up w silicone so we have no problems goin for a swim. I believe the company for the coupling is called "fernco", you would be looking on the site for whatever size oval from volant to whatever reg size goes to the shnorkel.

www.fernco.com

 

[yellowx16]

Yea MADX is runnin the Apollo inside a volant i believe. My buddy here in Brooklyn helped me build a plexiglass aquarium for my knn filter. Sealed up w silicone so we have no problems goin for a swim. I believe the company for the coupling is called "fernco", you would be looking on the site for whatever size oval from volant to whatever reg size goes to the shnorkel.

www.fernco.com

I thought about something similar for when i get a snorkel. I was thinking of making a steel box but the clear plastic seems nice too.

 

[BKxterra718]

Yea when this box goes im going to make it out of Lexan instead of plexi. Will run me twice as much but it'll b stronger. The plexi was $100 but made 2 boxes. It also cracks easier which i dont like. But its nice to be able to see my filter.