Here are the pictures as promised I apologize for the wait as im sure everyone was anxiously awaiting these.....
. The first couple of pictures are of the bumper as you can see it looks very similar to a few members on this site... *cough* oldsven *cough*.
These pictures are of the low budget snorkel that I built. A few reason I will throw out there as to why I went with this over the others I needed a snorkel to begin with to re route my intake due to the fact that I no longer have an inner wheel well. The dirt was coming right off my tire and going directly into the intake. Im not an expert but I think that was bad. The snorkel that I made i cannot take credit for, it is a design that I got from Shannon, a member on the ttora site. Parts list was all abs plastic products and were as follows; 4 inch cap, 4 inch to 2 inch reducer, 2x 2 inch to 2inch thread adapter male and female, 3x 90 degree 2 inch bends, 3 inch to 2 inch rubber reducer and about 4 feet of 2 inch abs plastic pipe. I started the process by removing all the extra plastic all the way up to the intake that is underneath the fender. It was suprising how cheap that 3 feet of factory intake tube was, I was happy to be removing it from the system. Of course when i took it off about a half pound of sand fell out of the tube onto the driveway
. I started by attaching the 3 inch to 2 inch rubber reducer onto the factory airbox I tightened the hose clamp and tested the seal it felt good.
I then cut a 6 inch or so piece of 2 inch tube and attached it to the 2 inch side of the reducer followed by a 90 degree bend on the other end of it. I cut another 1 foot tube and attached it to another 90 degree so that it was now facing the firewall portion of the fender I marked it and cut a hole, cut another 6 inch or so long piece and ran it through the hole.
I attached another 90 degree piece which faced the system toward the hood. Suprisingly it lined up in a perfect location to drill through which relieved some stress of mine. The hardest part was next which involved me drilling through the hood. I marked, double triple and quadroople checked everything and then took a 3 inch hole saw and put a nice hole in the hood.
I cut another foot long piece of tube and attached the threaded adapter to the end of it i ran it through the hood and threaded it in. Cut and adjusted the tube to the height that i liked and put on the cap which consisted of the 4 inch to 2 inch reducer with the cap on top of it. The reducer has 7 openings that require you to take a dremel to and make them actual openings for the air to draw in. After making sure everything was where it needed to be i took it all apart and sealed it using sensor safe silicone. I sealed everything up a few hours later and fired up the truck. It ran perfect i held my hands around the cap and sure enough i felt vacuum. I ran my truck around town on the freeway and did some drag tests up the street. I felt no loss in performance or mpg. Let me know what everyone thinks
