OK cleaned up thread back to the topic of the P1K it's intake location and options of preventing water ingestion.
Now, many have gone the route of successfully snorkeling starting at the OEM location up front, as discussed in detail here:
Stealth Snorkel Examples - Honda Pioneer 1000
I have looked at this and looked at this, and literal spent dozens of hours thinking about how to resolve the ingestion issue, while not making an obvious snorkel AND getting rid of the ridiculously long intake tubing that goes down along the bottom just begging to store water to begin with. Snorkel or not any water gets in there it will sit in that low tube until it evaporates or get sucked into the intake. This can be from casual riding to getting into the creek that was juuust a bit deeper than anticipated.
As with anything, there is a cause and effect for making changes. I get why Honda designed it this way, first it moves the primary intake away from heat and dust swirling near the engine, as an additional benefit greatly reduces the noise on the intake under hard throttle. But what if we can keep the same intake height or a little higher than OEM, eliminate that long intake tube just begging to hold water at the expense of a little intake noise and maybe more frequent air filter servicing. A picture is worth a thousand words so look and theses and seriously think about why cant you come off the lower right airbox where the tube attaches. I know it's tight in there but I am determined to come up with something.
First a look at the intake overview, imagine yourself trying to breath while running through a 6ft garden hose, Honda mitigates some of the suction by using the dead air chambers in the lower tube.
And a close up view of the engine & Intake from the passenger side arrow noting where the intake attaches to the airbox. remove everything going forward from the arrow.
Now a view from the drivers side. How about crossing over just in front of the head below the airbox then up the left side of it. (The path of yellow line) This would get intake away from hot exhaust and maybe get it up to the top of the bed rail behind drivers seat. I don't even intend to get it so deep my butt gets wet while driving so getting it a foot above that should be pretty safe. May put a cleanable foam pre-filter there, this would be in the way for any mid panel etc. and the fit between bed and seat back is tight. With a bit of work I think this is doable. Yes you will get some noise from the intake under throttle, but the rest of the powertrain is making its own noise as well. Possibly even go down across the sub-transmission then up near the drivers side, there is all kinds of space there, the trick is getting back to OEM the elevation at the top of the bed level and how tight everything resides in that area without getting into a bunch of cutting etc.
So any serious thoughts or idea discussion on this, I am determined to effort out a solution on my next machine, likely a 2018 P1K5 LE for the family machine.
