Roger Fairclough
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For 99.99% of your yearly mileage, you don't need a snorkel but for that 0.001%, if you have not got one, you could cause catastrophic damage to your motor.
With this in mind and as I don't like snorkels, per se, I started looking for an alternative. My reasons for not liking the snorkel are noise created, visual problems created by its mere presence on the windscreen surround, and its susceptibility to damage: one was destroyed at Lincomb.
My answer to the problem was an air valve, operated as required by the driver, that would under normal circumstances draw air from exactly the same place as the original air filter but could,on demand, draw air from within the passenger compartment.
This shows the unit fresh back from the platers.
The flap valve.
The unit partially assembled with the flap valve coated each side with foam plastic.
This is the entry point in to the air filter box.
The complete unit, painted and complete with operating arm and return spring.
This is the 75 mm i/d pipework that goes from the engine bay into the passenger compartment.
The unit fitted in place complete with hose work. The unit fits in place of the windscreen washer bottle which I had previously junked. I converted the headlamp washer to replace it.
Roger
With this in mind and as I don't like snorkels, per se, I started looking for an alternative. My reasons for not liking the snorkel are noise created, visual problems created by its mere presence on the windscreen surround, and its susceptibility to damage: one was destroyed at Lincomb.
My answer to the problem was an air valve, operated as required by the driver, that would under normal circumstances draw air from exactly the same place as the original air filter but could,on demand, draw air from within the passenger compartment.
This shows the unit fresh back from the platers.
The flap valve.
The unit partially assembled with the flap valve coated each side with foam plastic.
This is the entry point in to the air filter box.
The complete unit, painted and complete with operating arm and return spring.
This is the 75 mm i/d pipework that goes from the engine bay into the passenger compartment.
The unit fitted in place complete with hose work. The unit fits in place of the windscreen washer bottle which I had previously junked. I converted the headlamp washer to replace it.
Roger