I wonder how well it works.
Didn't someone here suck up a bunch of water this year????




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I just wonder how well the things flows, when its activated.
Can't really see how it works.

 

That was me who tryed to make his camaro a boat

I have seen them before, but its more for splashes and mist type stuff. Where mine was, err. Basically submerged.

My friend had one of them on his eclipse and the joints kept coming loose. But I never understood how they work either.

 

I saw one of those in an import rag; they took an exotic car (like a Ferrari), hooked the valve up, to a wide clear tube, and stuck the tube in a fishbowl of water. Then they revved the snot out of the engine!

The car pulled water up the tube 2 or 3 feet high and they were all amazed at "how much water could be sucked in". Of course that was BS, a little elementary school science trick. (Remember cutting a drinking straw at the top, then blowing thru it, and the water would rise up in the straw?)

But all "gee whiz" demos aside, it might be a good idea, why not? I think there's just a flap in there around the edges, and it's easier to pull the flaps up then to pull water up. Know what I mean? Say you drive into a fishbowl of water (laughs)... the engine tries to breathe- and it creates a suction inside the valve. Instead of the valve collapsing, these little flaps open up. Water might rise up a little, but since water would be heavier than the flaps, the water never makes it all the way thru.

 

i drove underwater through a flood last year car still runs fine