high mount air intake

[Sully]

so I have been thinking about making some sort of high mounted intake. I dont want or need a full on snorkel, but the higher the source of air, the less I have to worry when hitting a big sloppy mud hole.

I was thinking about some sort of hood with gasket to keep the engine bay air out of the intake.





Thoughts?

 

[Fobroader]

I was thinking of an H1 style or an ARB style if I do decide to turn the winter beater into an offroader.

 

[blackcoffee]

I'd be much more worried about other things getting wet. Your fan shroud, you could do electric fans? Run air lines to the fire wall for your axles, transfer case, so on. I have a K&N CAI on my vortec 350 and its a big open filter surrounded by metal on the sides with a gasket. I've gone through so much **** with that mounted in my blazer and now this new truck and its never gotten anything on it or in it. And I'm alot closer to the ground then you. I wouldn't be to terribly concerned with a enclosed airbox, I'm assuming your's is stock?

 

[88GMCtruck]

IMO get a 454 airbox and gut the baffles out of it. They are freakin huge and use a HUGE airfilter.

 

[Sully]

which 454?



yes mine is stock with a K&N drop in. I stuck with it for now because I have seen what open elements get when off roading. My ford was set up almost exactly like yours. As for other things to water proof the truck, I am planning on running all my vets to the top of the firewall. I have siliconed my dist cap, and greased every single wire connector already. I thin e-fans would be harmful to my situation and I know my 350 makes more torque than those little electric motors do. So if I get ice or mud build up, my motor will turn the fan more easily than the e-fans.

 

[88GMCtruck]

Vortec 454, the airbox is huge.

 

[Sully]

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doesnt look that big to me

 

[88GMCtruck]

they are HUGE, way bigger than the smallblock one. I wish I had space in my 99, the diesel one is tiny.

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[Sully]

the picture I posted looks the same as mine

 

[88GMCtruck]

I thought the 454 one was larger... hum. If yours is that large, then i'd just gut the baffles from it and keep it.