Snorkels are good for water crossings/flooded trails and roads, reducing intake of airborne dust, act as a CAI (though, many modern vehicles already locate the air box to where it gets cold air anyways), and some snorkels add a prefilter. There are times on road where that is beneficial as well.
They are super common around here in Australia as there is a ton of lifted land cruisers and patrols, and it’s honestly strange to see a fully build off-roader without one at this point
@@alexanderscarlett1731 Are they be used for preventing the intake being blocked by dust there? I imagine following someone in the outback would fill the grill with dust but maybe the airflow over the cabin would have the dust flow around a(n) snorkel/A pillar intake. There's a TV show I've seen where trucks are kitted out with them too, 'Outback Truckers'. I've never been to Australia to know first hand.
the first photo he showed had a snorkel but it's not at all what he's talking about. He meant the unicorn intake which is randomly sticking your intake out of the engine bay. I've seen some locals with bmw e30's and old golfs and toyota carinas replace one of the high beams with an intake.
@@filmandfirearms in F1 the rules mandate 13 inch I believe. Next year it will be 18 inch if I remember right. However, if you look at more road car like racing classes (eg, GT racing, DTM, LMP1 and 2 and even rally) you'll see a lot more low profile tires.
@@basmeijs6973 The rules do mandate 13 inch wheels now, but they've always run high profile tires. Back in the 80s, some teams were even going as small as 10 inch. Even in modified road car series and the LMP classes, they run pretty big sidewalls
I drive a car carrier and haul all types of cars. The lip guard on the Dodges is actually put there by the factory for car carriers to keep from scratching the lip while loading. The dealerships leave them on to help owners get used to them. I agree it looks ridiculous, but it is what it is.
These splitter guards damage the splitter because rocks and sand get stuck under them, they are meant to be renoved by dealers before sale and exist to protect the splitters during transport.
As long as it's a show car (a car that does not drive on public roads) I won't judge. But as soon as that thing hits the public road you bet your ass that I'm gonna comment on your excessive camber and stretched tires. These mods can be, and often are, a safety hazard. If you die in an accident in a car with these, tough luck, but it's a whole other thing when you kill innocent people who were just minding their business. Impossible? A few years back near where I live a driver in an E36 with huge camber and stretched tires killed a family going on holiday bc one of his tires slipped on the highway, his car spun and rammed into the family's car at 120 km/h. He survived with a broken vertebra, but all 4 passengers (Father, Mother and two Kids) were killed on impact... You can do whatever you want, but as soon as you put someone's life in danger it can not be tolerated.
Excessive camber, static car too low that it scrapes on a flat surface, "grocery list" stickers, black smoke producing diesels. Those are some of the thing I hate. SUre there's more, but I can't remember them.
Anyone with advice on fatter tires on a G35 Coupe (sport package) with Ray rims? Been thinking about spacers but how does a 255 rear [245 stock] and 235 front [225 stock] look perform and will they fit the Rays? Thanks!
the funniest part of this video was the camber and stretched tires I heard in japan 1-3 degrees of camber its considerate stance I'm not sure but their stanced cars compared to the American stanced versions they look much better than the American style but in my case I would never put camber on my car because the road in my area its bumpy here is the difference Japan 1-3 degrees of camber its considerate stance while in the U.S people have 5-15 degrees in their Golfs and Civics nobody says nothing and the non-car guys here says the cars with 15 degrees are fast they think that till their suspension gets destroyed
@@hybridShinx yeah its a shame here in the U.S a lot of people put 10 degrees of camber on EVO's and STI's they literally destroy the purpose of those AWD cars they don't deserve own those cars
@@giancarlolugo9586 no, the whole world is doing that too, no just shotty US petrol heads, everytime i see one, i just pulled alonside them, and shake my head in dissapointment in front of them
@@hybridShinx And imost stance guys put their horrible camber on expensive or nice cars EVO's STI's S2000 Supra GTR's 300ZX Z32 TT RX7's Silvias used cars that don't below of 14.000 dlls
I remember once hanging around on a forum where they said quite accurately what you said about the camber thing being function over form. I rather drive a riced out car with cheap tacky bullshit taped on that can easily be removed than driving an cambered suspension ricer that you can't even go fast in properly without losing control just because you have not enough tire thread to grip resulting in accidents that is going to be expensive to repair. All this bullshit to look cool by jumping on a trend wagon just everyone who did it before you arrived.
Overly loud mufflers. I see them all the time on those 7.4 L turbo diesels. If you sound like a train while you're idling, your car is too loud. If you make my windows Shake while you casually drive by my house; I hate you. The end!
I dont understand extreame camber. Completly ruins cars. Ruins the performance, ruins the condition of the car, ruins the resale value of the car... it just makes no sense to me. If I'm looking to buy a car, Immeditaly stop looking when I see the camber and realize the type of person who owned the car before me. It's just a bad idea to to extreamly camber a vehicle. Slight camber is useful on certain cars for certain situations, my s2k has alight negative camber for corners but that's it
In Hawaii, a lot of places you go, people will be backing into a stall. This means we can generally tell who is a tourist and who is a local. Carry on.
You made the mistake of assuming the stretch tire community is doing any of this for performance and/or logical reasons. It's all for style and style hurts.
As for my personal preference, I go for practicallity, performance and clean look. I rather make my car comfortable, faster, sound better and look cleaner than anything. Spring for a detail and ceremic coating people. Trust me. Its worth the 1k-3k.