ARB Snorkel ARB Safari Snorkel Intake Kit

ARB Snorkel ARB Safari Snorkel Intake Kit

This allows your Jeep to breathe air that is much cooler than is available in the engine compartment – adding horsepower while also allowing much cleaner air into the engine! Have you ever driven on a dusty road and looked in the rearview mirror to see a plume of dust and dirt getting kicked up into the air? The higher up off of the road the air intake gets, the cleaner the air is. Your cylinder walls will thank you with a stronger, healthier engine even if it is only used on paved roads, a snorkel is an investment in the health and performance of your rig.

Another consideration can be easily overlooked by the casual off-roader is that when you enter a body of water more than a foot deep, the angle of entry is almost always steep. This means that your Jeep tips forward, effectively putting the intake closer to the water line while entering, The farther forward in the engine compartment the intake is located, the lower it dips when entering these crossings and mudholes. Having a snorkel puts your intake position high and dry so you can wheel with peace of mind. How costly and embarrasing would it be to hydrolock your engine in less than two feet of water?

Installing a snorkel on your Jeep will free up precious space in the engine compartment allowing for extra mods, or just a little more space for air to circulate and cool your engine. It renders you immune to the occasional splash that a stock intake position ends up eating when you’re out sliding around in a mud hole.

A Jeep Snorkel means:

•Cleaner air entering the engine for longer engine life
•Cooler air entering the engine for higher horsepower
•Intake safely above water level (if it is under, then so are you)
•Frees up space in the engine compartment for a cooler engine or more modifications
•Makes your rig stick out as a true off-roading machine. These get lots of looks!

Jeep Wrangler accessories

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Say you just purchased your new Jeep Wrangler, you got a good deal, but you sure wish that you had a few of the accessories that weren’t part of the deal; or you knew all along that there were some aftermarket products that weren’t available from the factory or the dealer. Either way, there is a world of Wrangler accessories that will both make your Wrangler more eye-catching, and make it more functional, driver friendly and a safer vehicle.

One of the most common Jeep Accessories is the top, of which there are numerous choices for different seasons and different reasons. Your local climate will probably determine, at least, what would be your primary top; some Wrangler owners actually have two or three different tops if they are in a four season climate.

A hard top is probably the best year round top in such a varied climate. It is certainly the best insulated, which is the most efficient for both heat and air-conditioning. If your winters are not harsh, or there is no winter season, such as in San Diego, you might prefer just the soft top, which is easier to disassemble and store, as it also presents a different look that some Jeep owners prefer.

That just touches the surface of all the Jeep Accessories – 4 Wheel Parts that are available. If you choose not to have a top, it would be wise to obtain a set of Wrangler see covers, as the UV rays from the sun can do significant damage to seats not shielded in only a couple of years.

There are a ton of Wrangler suspension kits, many of which will raise the chassis just a few, or many inches. Depending on whether it will be driven vastly on the hardtop with occasional off-road driving, or significant off-road driving will be done, there is an aftermarket suspension system that would suit the Jeep Wrangler perfectly.

Along with such a suspension change would obviously be a change in tires, or vice versa. Higher rise, bigger tires; but how big is too big, and is the main reason style or practicality concerning certain off-road pursuits? There is a lot to consider and resolve, with safety the first though; then fun.

We can’t forget sound systems! There are numerous specific sound systems tailored to the interiors of Jeep wranglers. Special speakers and grills specifically made to fit in the door panels, in the back area and some places where you would wonder how a good-size speaker ever fit there?

There are also sound bars, which are positioned horizontally, usually just a little above and behind the driver and passenger seats. It would probably house numerous speakers including mid-ranges and tweeters, with possibly a separate sub-woofer, custom fit in the wranglers back area.

Those are among the most common and desired Jeep Wrangler accessories, though that is not much beyond touching the surface. Looking at a Wrangler accessories catalog or such a website, of which there are a ton, your head will be spinning as if you have a sweet tooth in a candy store.

Do your research, have fun, and choose wisely. Keep in mind that the best accessories are both pleasing to the eye, and present a valuable function concerning the Wrangler’s performance and, of course, the safety factor if it is a performance product.

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Also to be seriously considered is the installation process itself. It is not as simple as just ordering the parts and deciding that you will install it yourself on a Saturday afternoon. If you have the proper experience, and the right equipment, it certainly is possible, though many people might feel that it is simply a bolt on installation, which to a large degree it is, but it can be very tricky and is not an installation for an amateur mechanic.

Aside from the style statement, the significant changes that lift kits provide concerning the road handling performance of vehicles must be taken into account, if only for safety reasons.

What will be the main use of your vehicle? Will you be mainly slow rockclimbing, weekend off-roading or 99% blacktop? If this use is mainly off-road, specifically if you’re going to do a significant amount of hard-core riding over rocks, then a very elaborate, high lift would make more sense. If a lift kit is desired mainly for so-called styling, then one providing noticeable, but lesser height might be more appropriate.

You see, when a lift kit is installed, regardless of whether it is a 2-inch lift kit or 10 inches of lift, all of the original suspension components are significantly affected, consequently significantly changing the vehicles ride; most importantly, its stability.

So as you are browsing through the off-road magazines, or going from site to site researching lift kits on the Internet, keep in mind that styling is fine, but safety is first. It is possible to purchase a lift kit that will give you the styling you want with the safety that you need. This is a purchase for which it is particularly important to do your homework.

Jeep Snorkels, properly installed, WILL significantly lower the opportunity for debris, dust and even water from somehow getting ingested into your 4×4′s engine. It is a rather ingenious piece of equipment technically, and certainly would have your vehicle visually standing out from the crowd.

Snorkel kits protect off-road engines from virtually any damaging material which would more likely gain entrance through the normal air intake entrance under the hood; this by the point of air intake been located just above the roof line. This is obviously understood by viewing the periscope-like structure of the snorkel. As you can tell, visually it is rather eye-catching; love it or hate it. If you are a hard-core 4x4er, you’ll probably love the bold statement it makes.

The original, and clearly best known of any snorkel kits on the market is called the Safari Snorkel, born and bred down under in the dusty outback of Australia. The outback was the perfect place for the snorkel kit’s R&D; all that dirt, and the massive dust and rain storms provided the perfect enemy to prepare for, and defeat. Among any snorkel kits you may find, the Safari is clearly the standard.

Using the
ARB Snorkel ARB Safari Snorkel Intake Kit as a perfect prototype example, the construction is actually rather simple, extremely practical, and tough as nails. The quality of the polyethylene is premium, resulting in near extreme resilience and a very high level of stability. The sealant qualities are lmilitary spec-like, and corrosion resistant stainless steel plated hardware is used throughout.

Along with excellent filtering qualities to keep out the dust and dirt, there is a particularly interesting feature that helps prevent water induction, even in the worst of rainstorms. Just like a periscope it can rotate 360°; that is, the air intake port at the top can be positioned away from the windblown rain i.e. if you are driving into the storm, you can position the snorkel backwards, so that the rain in effect flies right by the opening in the opposite direction.

When you receive the Safari Snorkel kit for example, all the parts are clearly identifiable; the instructions could not be simpler. If you’re a fairly handy do-it-yourselfer with your off-road vehicle the job will probably go well. If you are a complete klutz, or just simply would prefer to pay someone else to do it, the cost would be relatively low because, again, someone with a fair amount of skill and the right tools would find it a relatively easy and not-too-time-consuming project.

The
Safari Snorkel was first developed and perfected in one of the few toughest off-road environments in the entire world, the outback in Australia. There was a significant need to protect off-road vehicle engines down under; and when there is a need, there is a way, and the Safari Snorkel was born.

Actually designed along the lines of a periscope, visually it does make a statement and might actually incite more attention than a Mercedes parked next to the snorkeled 4×4.

The basic idea is to sanitize the air inducted to the engine to the highest degree, much more so than it normally would be. This would not just involve the elimination of dust and dirt; there is actually a water separation system built into the Safari Snorkel. This is particularly beneficial, whereas on a misty or rainy day though the dust probably would not be present, the Safari Snorkel will keep water droplets, or worse, from getting into the engine.

The entire snorkel system is completely sealed, providing the engine with ultimate protection during the worst driving conditions in the desert’s dust, or during crossings of bodies of water.

Topping off those core benefits of a Safari Snorkel air and water filtration system, is that, like a submarine’s periscope, it is rotatable; that means that not only is that air induction port free and clear just above the roof line, but it is also rotatable, meaning that if for example you are traveling and have a snowballs the snorkel can be rotated away from the oncoming storm, therefore preventing a choking effect of the snow building up within the snorkels intake opening.

If you want to provide your 4×4 engine with the gift of breath, for the best engine performance under virtually any weather conditions, while making the statement that your 4WD is truly hard-core, a Safari Snorkel will provide both to your vehicle unlike any other aftermarket product.