2006 Canadian Tacoma Build

[heeltoe989]

Lucky for you blokes, some guy already already tested the waters for you... :snorkel:

See my install write up featured at Cruiser Outfitters:
http://www.cruiseroutfitters.com/tech_2ndgenTaco_snorkel.html

Yup Thanks Dave!!!! A beer for you on that one! :victory::wings: I have your write up and the FJ Crusier Raptor write up and working with a CAI so I'm hoping the 2 together will get the result I need.

A 2006 Tacoma with a snorkel and CAI

 

[Dave Bennett]

With the "ram air" action of the snorkel, isnt that really a cold air intake all by itself?

 

[heeltoe989]

With the "ram air" action of the snorkel, isnt that really a cold air intake all by itself?

With the supercharger no, as I have tuned the truck using the CAI and going back to the stock air box will richen up the mixture too much. The snokel for me was a good deal and getting the air intake much higher for deep powder snow conditions. I have noticed over the past few days of deep snow that snow is getting past the inner fender (bent up from ARB bumper) and into the air box. This is the first year I have had the CAI in the really deep snow conditions.

The snorkel is really for keeping snow out of the CAI box and also adding a really fresh air intake for the engine.

 

[Dave Bennett]

Gotcha

 

[Overland Hadley]

The snorkel is really for keeping snow out of the CAI box and also adding a really fresh air intake for the engine.

I have always thought that there might be a problem with snow going down the snorkel. Not a wet snow, but the really dry and gets into everything snow. And maybe not while driving but more of a problem when parked. It is just hard for me to figure how it would keep snow out when the snow is getting blown into everything else. (And yes I understand how the snorkel intake is made and how it keeps out rain.) What are your thoughts on this?

 

[heeltoe989]

As I'm making 290hp and 306lbs of torque at the rear wheels now after the tuning is finished I don't want to change those numbers.

 

[Dave Bennett]

I have always thought that there might be a problem with snow going down the snorkel. Not a wet snow, but the really dry and gets into everything snow. And maybe not while driving but more of a problem when parked. It is just hard for me to figure how it would keep snow out when the snow is getting blown into everything else. (And yes I understand how the snorkel intake is made and how it keeps out rain.) What are your thoughts on this?

Turn the head around backwards - that's what the Aussies do in torrential rains. While parked you can easily put a trash bag over it with a bungie if you are really worried.

 

[heeltoe989]

Turn the head around backwards - that's what the Aussies do in torrential rains. While parked you can easily put a trash bag over it with a bungie if you are really worried.

yeah. I know its really when the truck is moving through deep snow and it blows into and around the engine and the intake because its not really sealed well with how the inner fender gets folded up for the ARB bumper, but the snorkel will cure this problem. Its really the only time driveing in deep snow. I'm sure I'll figure things out if I have any more issues.

 

[heeltoe989]

Thanks for the advice though!:coffeedrink:

 

[freeze]

Yeah that's a real problem with having bumper on these Tacoma's with the deep snow. Going to the backcountry it just takes a heavy right foot to stay afloat of the 2-3' deep snow. You just have to pray you remember the road by heart and your co-pilot can kinda see.

This is already past the knee. The Toyota is sitting on the snow and not sinking in. The next day it was a little past the door sill... I had to dig out from losing momentum and was surprised when I hopped out that it was up to my waist! That's one thing the IFS/skid plate is good for.... it's like motorboating over the soft stuff.

I just can't get over the look of the snorkel on the Tacoma. The tube that attaches to the fender (snorkel body) seems to be a little too skinny almost as though it's not to scale for the truck. It almost needs to be like the 80 series snorkel...thicker.

Function over form nonetheless.

Not only will it be great for keeping the snow out of the intake, on those super dusty fireroads/logging roads out here and in BC will be nice to keep the dust out of the filter.

 

[Dave Bennett]

Not only will it be great for keeping the snow out of the intake, on those super dusty fireroads/logging roads out here and in BC will be nice to keep the dust out of the filter.

THAT is the #1 benefit of the snorkel for me, water crossings are quite rare in the southwest but dust is a killer.

 

[mr.trd]

Lucky for you blokes, some guy already already tested the waters for you... :snorkel:

See my install write up featured at Cruiser Outfitters:
http://www.cruiseroutfitters.com/tech_2ndgenTaco_snorkel.html

Hells Yeah! Thanks man. But I just figured you did it since you owed me one for cutting the bottom off my bed so you could get a bumper built and you just knew one day I would have a snorkel.:victory:

 

[heeltoe989]

Yeah that's a real problem with having bumper on these Tacoma's with the deep snow. Going to the backcountry it just takes a heavy right foot to stay afloat of the 2-3' deep snow. You just have to pray you remember the road by heart and your co-pilot can kinda see.

This is already past the knee. The Toyota is sitting on the snow and not sinking in. The next day it was a little past the door sill... I had to dig out from losing momentum and was surprised when I hopped out that it was up to my waist! That's one thing the IFS/skid plate is good for.... it's like motorboating over the soft stuff.

I just can't get over the look of the snorkel on the Tacoma. The tube that attaches to the fender (snorkel body) seems to be a little too skinny almost as though it's not to scale for the truck. It almost needs to be like the 80 series snorkel...thicker.

Function over form nonetheless.

Not only will it be great for keeping the snow out of the intake, on those super dusty fireroads/logging roads out here and in BC will be nice to keep the dust out of the filter.

Thanks freeze, you can help with the install if your not busy one weekend!

 

[heeltoe989]

I still wish that safari snorkel would make one for the Tacoma, but I don't think that will ever happen.

 

[Overland Hadley]

While parked you can easily put a trash bag over it with a bungie if you are really worried.

Shower cap!