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M1009 gets a snorkel

kassim503

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

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.
 

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doghead

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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....
 

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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?"
 

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

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Gilligan did this to his daily driver last year.
 

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saddamsnightmare

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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:twisted:
 

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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. :razz: Andrewh
 

kassim503

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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

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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.
 

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

popacom /Bill:jumpin:
 

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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.
 
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