Super Scoops of Air, Not Water

After posting a video about the Banks SuperScoop, Rainman Ray was 
besieged with comments warning the seasoned mechanic that the SuperScoop would inhale water and hydro-lock his 2006 Duramax engine. Although he explained that there was another air inlet in the airbox that would draw air in the event the scoop was submerged, it didn’t stop skeptics from chiming in.

Last week Ray found himself in the middle of Hurricane Debby up to his door jam in water. The Banks SuperScoop indeed submerged. “We had a little hurricane last night,” says Ray lightheartedly. “Things were kind of flooded. Even with the scoop submerged, I wasn’t concerned.” Was water sucked up the scoop and into the engine? Of course not. Watch the Floridian explain why.