Super Scoops of Air, Not Water
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00:05 yeah we’re in a little bit of water here Okie do so I I wasn’t really planning on kind of doing this kind of a follow-up video uh basically what had happened was is we had a a little hurricane the other day or last night uh not much of one but there was a lot of
00:24 water and things were kind of flooded uh I was out heading to the airport uh in my last little video that I posted I’ll put a link to it in this video’s description and in the pin comment and up here uh and at the very end on the end screen so you can go back and uh
00:38 check references but I had driven and forted through a flooded Road and the water level by my estimation if you looked at the video was like right around here or so like right here at the level of uh this little air scoop that I have on the front of my theramax Silverado now everybody was saying when
01:01 I installed this that you’re a crazy person because it’s going to suck up water and ruin your engine and it probably was sucking in water through here I mean this thing was it was we went through some water I’ll tell you what but if you can see on the back side there’s some vents right there however
01:17 we were moving through at speed creating a wake and that wake could have submerged the entirety of this scoop area but I was not concerned about ingesting water into the engine and I’ll go ahead and show you why and will also show that I did not suck up water and that the engine is fine so let me uh
01:34 popsy hood and uh we’re going to take the air filter out and take a gander and see if there’s any water ingestion that took place when I drove through that flooded Road clearly this is going to be a different kind of video than normal because I’m not at work right now cuz we
01:47 were hurricaning sort of uh last night you know nothing crazy it was like they said it was like a cat one we had a lot of rain anyway here’s the 66 Duramax here is the banks Ram Air intake that was installed and this connects to the snorkel down here in question it goes up
02:06 through the wheel well and then connects to the bottom of this box so what I’m going to do is we’re going to take this box off and I’m going to show you guys that it is not likely I’m not going to say impossible cuz nothing’s impossible but it’s not likely that even at moderate speed I’m going to
02:28 ingest water into the engine so let’s get these guys disconnected here four stainless steel screws now for the folks that think that uh sucking up water will ruin your engine you are correct and it is possible to get water up into this intake right here very correct but you’d
02:53 have to plow at it to plow you at Major speed in order to shove enough water up through this hole right here in order to allow the engine to suck it in through the filter and then ultimately into the intake pipes through the sensors into the turbo blowing up your engine but the
03:11 reason that it’s not really that likely if you do this properly is take a look right inside here see this big old hole right here that right there that goes into the fender where the factory air box is supposed to connect to right here behind the headlight so as long as we
03:28 don’t Ram Air no pun intended if we don’t Ram water if we don’t Ram water into this at speed overwhelming the drain pressurizing said water and pushing it up to where it cannot Escape through either that hole or anywhere else in time then yes it is possible that you could ingest water into your
03:48 turbo and blow up your engine however with the feature that still exists on this Ram air intake it still has a cutout in the side of it so even if we are in water you know y deep right here top of the wheels it’s coming in through the doors if even if we’re in water that
04:04 deep it’ll still be able to ingest its air through the fender which is behind the headlight through these little holes and cracks and whatnot and all that good stuff so driving through and forwarding that flooded road today uh was not putting the engine in danger in my
04:20 opinion so I hope that clears that up and I hope that clears up the uh the the scary intake scoop snorkel that is down low the cold air air intake see you guys later thanks for watching go check out that other video of me driving through the water again Link in description pin
04:37 comment right here in the end screen and I’ll see you guys in the next one
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.
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