foosh wrote:Well as i said "little modification to the system we'd have a functioning snorkel". By that, I mean caulk any poorly made joint, and seal any and all holes.
Does Volant provide covers for those holes when you buy their snorkel? If not, their snorkel doesn't sound very useful.
How much money is the entire Volant system?... You said their snorkel = $350 or so, right? I'm assuming that's not including their airbox. I'd just argue that the volant won't fit very well, and will end up costing more in the end. I feel like it's a dead end.
The other half of my comment post was aimed to answer bobbyblaze's question regarding the seals in the intake.
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Below is some information I figured I'd bring over from the OS:
Regarding the Fiberglas intake box that Mr Smith has been discussing, Johnny already tried that but with an aluminum box, and ran into some difficult sealing issues:

This is the problematic area that will be hard to run a 3" hole through:

I posted a couple proposed solutions on the OS to the airbox issue.
This is a K&N system, but made for engines up to 250 HP. It would certainly work in our application, it may just restrict the top-end performance a bit.

Ractive:

Piper-cross (
http://www.pipercross.net/competition/products_7000.asp):

Those were expensive options, which took me into looking at junkyards.
The 2000 F-150 4.6Ls had a fully enclosed filterbox that necked down to accept air from inside the fender.
The top item below is a picture of the stock filter. I'm sure they can be found pretty cheap.

From what I've seen, it will be really hard to beat that for your filter box. The problem is that it looks as if it has a mass air flow sensor. That can probably be discarded fairly easily. The hard part is just finding a sealed airbox.
So, from my recollection, that's where the airbox discussion went on the OS. I think you're going to be hard-pressed to find a square aftermarket airbox that will fit our void space properly, but it's worth investigating.