Wow – you should make a 2 minute video welding something and see which one generates more debate.

The scoop is fine people. Banks has sold a lot of these things and I am pretty sure there have been very few issues.

The airbox has a 6" x 6" inlet on its side facing the fender. The Super Scoop that hangs down low is only a supplemental inlet. Ray can drive through water up to the bottom of the airbox and no water will get sucked into the filter because there will never be enough suction thanks to the large main air inlet.

You need to fit new tires, Ray!

Vents are good

Banks does tons of studies before he sells any of his products and he's the best out there

ON FORDS TOO.

Love your videos, but you need new tires, those are verging on bald.

All it takes is once. I went and visited my high school buddy and we went "city off roading" in his old 4wd flat 4 subaru. We were cruising along a dirt trail and boom, muddy water all over the windshield and motor died. Holly crap, we were in a deep water puddle over a foot deep. Car was hydro locked. Had it pulled out and took out the plugs to drain the water. Stared it back up and went home. But it didn't go for many more miles. On the highway a rod gave out and destroyed the block. My buddy ignored warnings to have it checked out. Hitting water at 10 plus MPH will NOT go out the back hole fast enough. Water will shoot in all directions including blasting up to the intake. And the faster you hit water the worse the fire hose effect. I will never put an intake low like that. Ever. Oh, and my buddy had the factory intake. No modification. Just goes to show there is deep water somewhere after most every rain. He hit a flooded dip in the trail. I 70 in my area is a massive dip in the road. And it has flooded and hyrolocked fleets of vehicales in hard rains and clogged drains.

What, you're not driving in foot deep water all the time? Im pretty sure you wouldn't be driving much or far in water that deep with all the stranded/flooded cars blocking your way.

Ah, there's you problem….it's not really "ram air". Not my truck and not a modification I'd have done, so to each his own. Having once lived a south Louisiana and experiencing my share of storms, sometimes you find yourself in water deeper than you planned.

Wish you the best and love the content!

You may not hydro-lock but you may hydro-plane. Better check those tires.

Maybe you don't understand how a vacuum works or have considered the splash from road spray.

Dream on. the scoop is a liability

Snorkel or a 6" lift.

For sure engine bays are hot and that does reduce the air density and available power. An outside air intake does make a difference. And its not like one will drive blindly into deep water without a thought or even knowing it was there. Water is a serious hazard to the whole vehicle not just the engine. Snorkels are a major pain to fit you have to make holes all over your vehicle; get one hole wrong and you are in a world of pain. Snorkels add so much length and consequent air flow resistance in the intake that they reduce power not increase it.

Well with the vents in the back that scoop isn't generating any positive pressure anyways. Besides My first generation ZX12R doesn't create enough positive pressure with its factory engineered scoop until it hits about 180mph to actually gain any power and it likely has the best engineered scoop on a sport bike ever made.

Might as well just cut off the scoop and about another 4" of riser on top of that. It will still be pulling the sane temperature air from outside the engine compartment with a much lower risk of water intrusion.

Did Banks by chance put a hole upstream of that scoop to prevent enough negative pressure in the scoop to suck up large quantities of water? That wouldn't be a bad idea either.

There is also a product on the market that installs between the air filter and emgine that will open up under lots of negative pressure (I.E. air filter submerged in water) to prevent water ingestion. Probably won't work on turbocharged engines though. I can see it opening up under high boost conditions when the air filter has just a little restriction.

I think it will be fine for where this truck is used. If there were any doubts a couple of 1/2 inch holes higher up toward the air box would solve the problem. In my case it wouldn't be a good idea because my driveway is a creek bed and I rutinely drive through water up to the bottom of the doors. I've learned living up here to redirect the vents for the differintials and transfer case to a higher location as well.