You can drive these things into the water right up to the wheel wells. The air intake is right beneath your butt, about the height of the top of the wheel. There is enough back pressure in the exhaust system to continue to force the exhaust out the tailpipe.impalator wrote:Hello again,
I will mount a trailer hitch onto my Delica coming this spring / summer as I want to be able to launch my inflatable/outboard (16ft. Hondamarine with Aluminum Floors and 25hp outboard) in Shuswap lake...
I won't drive any crazy distances with the trailer on as the boat is stored in our cabin/garage which is only about 2km's from the boat-ramp... and the boat with outboard weighs around 145kg's... and it's just a small little boat trailer that I am using.... My concern is only: When backing down the boat ramp, how low will I have to go to get the boat floating off the trailer? Don't want to drive the Van right down into the water....
PS: I like the idea of a Mitsubishi Transmission that is also used in Mopar vehicles much better than the other way round....
Of course, if you need to back that far into the water, you've either got a really short boat trailer or the launch ramp has a very shallow slope. You'd need to fit a snorkel to your ride then. For exciting footage of these vehicle's water skills, look for "amphibious L300" on YouTube - but if you're doing what that guy is doing, well, you wouldn't need a boat then.
