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With 3D printing with strong plastic filaments, someone somewhere will solve the problem and produce the bends and airbox fitting. The straight pipe sections could be off the shelf.
 
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LOL, yes but mandrill bent SS snorkels are pretty commonplace around here.
Once you have the pattern it's easy, the tricky part is:
1. getting the pattern
and 2. cutting the holes in the bodywork etc in the right place.

I guess there is not enough space to hook into the OEM filter housing, so the these guys have replaced the whole filter unit.

I'm not a big fan of pod filters, basic physics tells me the less surface area the less efficient the filter will be.

Went on a trip with a mate in a Prado, did several hundred km on dusty dirt roads mainly with the Prado in front.
after getting back home Prado mate calls me and says "check your air filter mine was chock a block with dirt".
I check my filters and they were fairly clean. We eventually figured the Prado's air intake draws air from inside the
front guard... thus the dirt load.the Touareg draws air from the front either side of the radiator.
 
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Getting it to first stage I'd say is no issue, maybe the bottom part of airbox can be crafted with different inlet even porscher dudes will wanna get their hands on it

Reason because the airbox sits in two rubber legs and acts as protection to engine bay in the wheel arch side
 

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is factory airbox even water tight?
Not sure what that has to do with anything, snorkel kits are not for fording water. As someone mentioned, they are for offroading in dusty conditions. Drawing air from higher up draws cleaner air and prevents the filter from becoming plugged. Classic mistake people make is they assume the snorkel is for water and take their rig swimming, short out the electronics and flood the interior trying to ford 3 or 4 feet...
 
Not sure if anybody else has seen this snorkle kit. It uses a pod type filter by the looks.

600 quid ex UK.
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I'm subscribed to Darkside on YouTube and been watching their build to get some ideas for my V8, 2004. I've been thinking of putting a snorkel on my rig. Anyway, did you buy their kit? If so what is your engine and how was the install
 
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I'm subscribed to Darkside on YouTube and been watching their build to get some ideas for my V8, 2004. I've been thinking of putting a snorkel on my rig. Anyway, did you buy their kit? If so what is your engine and how was the install
Nah, I'm not going to cut up my treg to fit a snorkel, I got a "water bra" goes over the grille and stops water from getting into the engine bay.
I have a 2004 V10
 
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