Has anyone cut a hole in their fender and mounted a large truck breather, outside of the engine compartment??

Or, am I going to be the guinea pig??

Under the hood must be a million degrees in the summer, compared to a cool, pleasant, almost 100 degrees outside air.

Thanks.

 

I haven't seen one. I think it would look gawd-awful outside.

 

I haven't seen one.

(And it might be because it'd be as ugly as sin.)

I would try to install some sort of under-radiator scoop or shaker-hood first...

 

Or as a older Southern lady I worked with would say - "That's as ugly as home-made sin."

 

yep

 

Bearkiller I saw one on a red ford in texas in the early 90's.
That southern lady was right
GW

 

Okay, let's assume that this breather is invisible.

How would it's function compare to other, less un-attractive alternatives??

If I go ahead with this, I can make it look like it belongs on the truck.

You would have to see the truck to understand; as, it already looks more like a road-tractor, than a pick-up.

Thanks.

 

do a search for BHAF. its pretty much what you're talking about. a huge breather on the passenger side fender. you can put a heatshield around it.

 

Isn't there enough space to fit a 5 inch tube behind the passenger headlight, straight down to under the front bumper?

Heck, take a piece of tubing and run it backwards under the truck and have it suck air from under the bed someplace. Or stick it into the cab through a hole in the firewall... Do a snorkel-esque design; suck air through one 6 inch stack, and put exhaust out the other matching pipe. (You could ford water that way.) Put a big ram-air scoop on your roof or hood, and duct the intake to that.

Out of ideas...

 

Some of these are quite good, but a couple have problems.

Under the bed, you could pick up a lot of dust on gravel roads.

Suction in the cab could produce the same result that shutting the snorkel head valve has on a submerged submarine - rapid increasing vacuum in the cab (note that at full throttle you might be pulling 640 ft3 a minute); or at least until the windows implode.

I like the dual-stack, one-in, one-out, idea. I'll bet you could plumb that (unless you have twins); might have to flatten the intake pipe in places to keep from getting too low. That would allow a big truck-type air filter, too.

The ram-air scoop could also work with a little ducting under the hood to put the air in the right place.

Regards, DBF

 

I looked at an old Emeryville that had two intake stacks, with big breathers, that Y-ed together behind the cab, then one big tube proceeded to the turbo inlet.

I need to go scavenging at the big truck graveyard.

Also, I would like to get ahold of someones dirty-done-with BHAF filter cartridge to experiment with.

A Ford is just a different animal under the hood, and a million things are in the way on that right side.

Thanks.

 

How about a duel fender scoops! on funchanal and one to match!
My vision of this would be with. the filter still in side the fender and the scoop just derecting the air.

that may still not look quite right but would look a lot better then the filter sticking out of the fender!

 

Are there any dis-advantages to a forward facing hood-scoop??

I can't imagine it could be any different than the rest of the openings catching wind on the front of the truck.

A mesh could be used to catch stray birds, large rocks, bicycles, etc.

 

How about an external snorkle behind and above the cab like the cabover semis use?

 

you've just created a monster