not to mention I have a perfect image or “blueprint” really to move forward.... duh.
on a serious note... what about pulling air from the cab?
I think if you were pulling air from inside the cabin the sound from the turbo would make it insanely loud as well.
Haha, I have visions of being oxygen depraved when I pull high boost numbers up a long climb and those turbos sucking out all my air. For me, there would still be the trick of routing to get a large tube through the firewall. I guess if I were running my AC I could really get cold air intake.
More details on my current thoughts: To build a box around my air filter where it currently sits to seal it up from underhood air. To get enough room to put a box around the filter I'd cut the fender well and extend the box down into that area. I've done some flex testing to see how far the tire goes into the well and it looks like I've got a little room to play with in bringing the top of the well down a couple inches. I'd then route the intake to that sealed box through the hood with a prefilter thingy exposed on top of the hood. I wanted to try and see if I could route the intake to the base of the windshield as that will be positive air flow but I've got windshield wiper stuff in the way that I still need. Then there is another thought of sinking something into the fender so it doesn't stick too far out to get pulled off on the tight trails we have in our area and route the intake through the fender. That might give it more of that Mad Max vibe.
I had the same thoughts when I was brainstorming and scheming for ways to solve this problem. I originally had a box sitting on my inner fender with the filter inside that connected to the snorkel. The issues I had with it was that first of all the space limits you to a smaller air filter size. And that no matter what, the box would get heat soaked and the air would not be near as cold as if the filter was located elsewhere. I stumbled upon mine thinking of how semi's have a giant canister on the side of them which is essentially the air filter housing.
I used to temporarily connect some couplings under the hood and pull my air filter and run it on top of the snorkel to test how much cooler it ran. I was always afraid of getting caught in a rainstorm and sucking tons of water in and ruining my turbo compressor. The 50-150* drop in EGTs across the board make it appealing. IMO it's better than an intercooler upgrade because you aren't shedding heat in front of the rest of your cooling system and engine bay.