SFR Major Rant STOP IT! It stops NOW!

Sorta fishing-related
Brute said:
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I have crossed this creek at Fordyce...one of two places i have had water up to the headlights...
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I had water up past my headlights in a stock Ford ranger once.. on my first morning ever going steelheading in norcal. After a 4 hr drive, I followed the gazetteer to what looked like a good access point, but what looked like a long 1' deep puddle on the dirt access road to the gravel bar was really a long 3-4' deep puddle. I was shitting bricks when the truck dropped in there, but luckily the truck didn't stall and i made it through with water washing up onto the hood.

Cherry on top was pulling out to the gravel bar dripping wet and parking next to the only car out there, which was like a Toyota Corolla if I recall correctly.. obviously they knew the correct road to take.
 
sleestak said:
I generally agree with your assessment of the snorkel culture, but the oiled K&N filters are not great at limiting fine particulate passage. They are demonstrably worse than basic paper filters in dusty environments. The best thing to do is just get a bunch of paper filters and replace them frequently if you are in a dusty environment.
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I agree 1000%.
 
Corvairs. Bah! I had a 1960 introductory-model Corvair 58 years ago. It was fun to drive after I put 200 pounds of weight plates in the front trunk, but overall an incredible POS. My favorite memory is the furnace, a gasoline-fueled heater in the passenger footwell. It put out amazing heat, but also exhausted all the combustion gasses into the cabin so you would poison yourself with CO on cold days. I attended a lot of college classes with pounding headaches. It was much safer on hot days though, because at 90 degrees it would vapor lock and not run at all. (Experienced early Corvair owners always had a jug of water up front so they could pour it over the engine and cool the fuel lines.) The last straw with that car was the day I was cruising on a straight stretch at 60 and the right front wheel assembly snapped, forcing the now-horizontal wheel up into the fender well. Unable to steer, all I could do was stand on the brake pedal as we rocketed down the roadside ditch heading for a power pole. The car stopped short of the pole in a patch of brush, but I got poison oak climbing back up to the pavement. I got rid of the damned thing and bought a used VW with 36 horsepower.
 
Anyone remember the Cogsworth Vega?

High performance and won a lot of races in it's class...
 
Btw, for those looking for the heavy duty, sand amd dirt trapping filters systems, here's a link

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I didn't see complete kits, but judging from combining component prices, probably a grand per system average
 
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