M1009 gets a snorkel

[kassim503]

So have you ever been sitting around and said to yourself, my army truck would really like a snorkel? Mabye its just me

I wanted to have a snorkel that ran straight up through the hood, not wrapped around the side (never particular to the look).

Mabye ill do a writeup on how it was done later.

By the way it does not obstruct the drivers view at all. Or not very much at the maximum.

 

[doghead]

why?

 

[kassim503]

I wish I could tell you

Is there any places that sell intake mushrooms that arent online? I really dont feel like waiting for one

 

[doghead]

Maybe an M35A2 intake mushroom would work. I never tried putting one on a piece of sewer pipe though!



btw, maybe you need to lay off the shrooms....

 

[doghead]

I can hear you now, "my cucv won't run right, I have crap in my intake"!

response, " was that new or used sewer pipe?"

 

[doghead]

You could add a 90 elbow to that, facing forward and call it "ram air"

 

[clinto]

Gilligan did this to his daily driver last year.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

MArch 3rd, 2010.

Definitely different, no doubt about it, but what about the exhaust? I can't say that the intake stacks on the HMMWV's ever did much for me aesthetically speaking, but then I drive an M35A2 with a short air intake stack and a Swiss S404.114 Unimog with a zyclone on the air intake, so don't ask me for aesthetic advice. If it suits you, and its reversible, guess what..... it's YOUR truck.

Cheers,

Kyle F. McGrogan

 

[bowtiecrazy]

i put a homemade cold air on mine. but it wasnt as fancy as that. i like the ramair idea myself

 

[AndrewH]

And now, from out of nowhere, a good idea. Now that you have the intake watertight and stout. How many electric blowers would it take to have a selectable turbo? With a huge red button to smack when your just about to get caught and need the extra HP? OOOOOOO I like the idea. oh and a deuce shroom would look cool up there. I might steal your idea. Andrewh

 

[deucebigalo]

Enough said!!!!

 

[kassim503]

Electric blower ? Nah! I might duct tape a backpack blower to the roof So far I havnt lost any tears over cutting the hood up, it had enough dents in it to actually have a lake in it. Has anybody used a Donaldson pre-filter with any success? The kinds that uses centrifugal force to spin dirt out?

 

[AndrewH]

Hoods are plentiful. I'm diggin' the backpack leaf blower idea. How cool would a gas powered remote turbo be? Still a big fan or the big red button tho. Gotta find a use for that.

 

[popacom]

popacom in KY here ..................We love"red Necks " here inKY toooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Lord knows we got our share here LOL

popacom /Bill

 

[kassim503]

We need to find a electric start backpack blower

 

[AndrewH]

Got one. But it looks more like a tow behind leaf loader for the city.....

 

[CDN-CUCV]

And after all the effort I put into mine, I could've just went down to Home Depot....

Say, how about opening that hood of yours? Do you now have to remove the snorkel each time you do?

 

[charlietango]

see now that looks 'proper' .

 

[kassim503]

The snorkel dosent effect the hoods operation

 

[dstang97]

I'll pass on the write up. Let me know when You want to buy a hood and cowl because you just ruined a collectors piece.