Rasised air intake?

[smo]

What options are there for a freelander?

[schuee]

What options are there for a freelander?

Caught this on the MAD Freelander Site.
The topic was TD4 Air Intake

Author  Topic        
jimny33
Senior Member

United Kingdom
906 Posts
 Posted - 21/07/2007 :  22:50:32              
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Where is it on the wing - and can I extend it to the end/top of the engine bay if it needs to be?  

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MAD RED DEVIL 003
Bedfordshire/South Wales

 
Harveyg77
Average Member



United Kingdom
470 Posts
 Posted - 22/07/2007 :  12:06:17              
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Goes into the rivers side wing, very front through some plastic. Draws air from the void in there. Its perfectly good enough for normaluse really, you can use remove the outer wing and extend it, then cut a hole through the wing and exit up the pillar. (i.e. home made 'snorkel'). If you're wading though, your first point of call is to extend the rear diff breather as its just extened up to behind the cubby box and finished in an inverted 'u'. Extend this up the bodywork somewhere., think Les did it to the rear lights. Also the front gearbox breathers finish behind the engine with the same 'U' shape. So if you were fitting a snorkel it would be well worth extending these too. Having said that I had a standard a standard K-series and used to wade with water over the bonnet and have no problems - either luck or skill - you decide ;-)

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Also found this.

http://www.pangaea-expeditions.com/products/brand/mantecprodindex.html

Cheers
Schuee

[tinca]

i thought it had been proved on numerous occasions that a hippo floats before it needs a raised air intake.

[smo]

i thought it had been proved on numerous occasions that a hippo floats before it needs a raised air intake.

Mine is far from a normal hippo...

[G30RGE]

If you are looking for Dlander then you would probably be better making your own as air intakes in engine bay will be totally different

[smo]

Possibly, but i was thinking about standard intake outside and custom routing inside?

[andyhubbard]

Smo see if you can find a pic/build list for the rally support cars as they had them fitted,and there was one forsale on ebay a couple of weeks ago with the wing attached.

[G30RGE]

Smo see if you can find a pic/build list for the rally support cars as they had them fitted,and there was one forsale on ebay a couple of weeks ago with the wing attached.

and a very smart carbon fibre one it was as well

I am sure I read on a forum (maybe Mad FL) one of the guys there bought it and was looking to get some mad using original CF one as a pattern

Here's the pic from ebay

[smo]

Nice, wouldnt mind getting my hands on that!

[G30RGE]

OK
The guy who bought that one above may be selling it as he is getting rid of his Freelander

check here   (last post in thread (or it was when I wrote this))

Would of been interested myself but its on the wrong side  :(

[Doobreydog]

George the additional airbox etc should make it possible to fit on either side....but they do float (in theory) :twisted:

[G30RGE]

mmmm never thought of that

Could be a good project for winter  :D

[carbore]

If its a petrol....

There are a fair few indction kits for the k series that use a fairly water tight looking enclosed filter.  (after all it needs to be air tight)

http://www.eliseparts.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=117_119&products_id=413

(this is one of the most expensive, sorry illustration purposes only)

You could then have this linked to a "unviersal" snorkel  that goes into a suitable bodywork hole and then connects to the induction cone. You caold make this so it can be easily swapped form snorkel route to standard route.

Its unlikley to be cheap, but if you cent find anything out-the-box, im sure it would work. (also it will make the car sounbd better and may give a bit more pep to the engine?

[richoutthere]

Took it to a guy to make some more in GRP today so should hear back soon. Is anyone really interested?
I'd love to sell a couple os the moulds and work don't cost me too much. Planning on using the std 1.8 airbox so very few mods. Depending on what it costs shouldn't be more than £150 each once made up.
Rich

[richoutthere]

I've got the first GRP snorkle for the passengers side copied from the carbon fibre one.
I'm having another made in GRP and one in carbon to take to Donnington on teh 17th if anyone's interested.
If anyone "IS" interested, and you have a 3dr, let me know and I'll shorten one so it fits, as the 5dr snorkle is a little longer along the roof line, and fouls the sunroof on my 3dr. It secures into the roof moulding on the roof so no drilling through. Mine will be fitted with a carbon fibre one so you can have a look at one fitted

[richoutthere]

Well here it is fitted.
A fresh carbon one in teh mould and a GRP one sold to a guy in Austria.
Will be at Donnington on 17th, if anyone interested.