625i Snorkel Installation
Okay, so a little background first:
We have a JD Gator 625i, stock from the manufacturer. This thing is awesome. We take it up to West VA to the Hatfield McCoy trails and go riding and it does great, but as a lot of folks have mentioned it really needs to be snorkeled. The air intakes sit almost on the floorboards, so if you go through any mud that washes over the floorboards you risk getting some moisture in the pipes. I'm not the most technical ATV guy, but I'm guessing one of them is the clutch breather and the other is the engine air intake.
Anyways, I see where you guys did some awesome work putting kits on the 850i, but the 625 has a different layout. I also checked out snorkelyouratv.com and they don't have a kit for that model. So, a few questions for anyone who is famliar with this:
Short of going schedule 40 for all the piping, is there any flexible hose or pipe that can be used? The (clutch breather?) looks to be 2", while the engine air intake? is about 3 inches, but that one is rubber and not plastic. I'm just not totally sure what supplies we could use to connect into those existing lines and run them up a few feet. Also, if you reduce the size of the intake don't you also reduce performance of the engine? For example, if I reduced the 3" line down to 2" and ran it up would it drop the horsepower?
We're pretty handy but we've never worked on ATVs before so any advice you can give is appreciated.
Thanks!