No hydrolocking for me
12-02-2001, 04:24 PM
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No hydrolocking for me
After driving around in the rain today and through big puddles I decided to modify my AEM.
All done:
Left overs:
Mike
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12-02-2001, 06:13 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (Diversifiedsalez)
you would literally have to go under water to go into hydrolock...
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12-02-2001, 07:09 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (mike)
yeah thats true....better safe then sorry...but that would take a hell of a big puddle for that to happen...and you would have to hit that puddle pretty damn hard. What FI set up are you doing?
12-02-2001, 07:22 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (mike)
Actually you guys are all wrong on going through a big puddle. I know this cause it happened to me. Yeah I went through a puddle, but my filter was not submerged deep into it. I didn't see the puddle unitl it was too late and all of a sudden, my motor just shut off. Hydrolocking will happen if you are driving through heavy rain. If you go through a puddle of water, it doesnt even have to be deep just don't gas it when you do go through it or you end up sucking in water. Air only sucks in real hard if you press on the gas.
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12-02-2001, 08:37 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (laughin2.2)
Why didn't you use an AEM bypass valve?
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12-02-2001, 10:04 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (Pyrochaos38)
Wow, you can do all that with a gun, pencil, paper towel roll, and some saw blades. 
Why is there a gun in the picture, haha!
Why is there a gun in the picture, haha!
12-02-2001, 10:14 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (B21A)
Wow, you can do all that with a gun, pencil, paper towel roll, and some saw blades.
Why is there a gun in the picture, haha!
Why is there a gun in the picture, haha!
12-02-2001, 10:44 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (mike)
A magazine has done a test with an NSX equipped with an AEM cai and air by pass valve on a dyno. The NSX did a full 3rd gear dyno run with the filter submerged in water. I know that they had a recall on some of the earlier ones but that problem was fixed over 6 months ago. So how don't they work?
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12-02-2001, 11:37 PM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (laughin2.2)
A magazine has done a test with an NSX equipped with an AEM cai and air by pass valve on a dyno. The NSX did a full 3rd gear dyno run with the filter submerged in water. I know that they had a recall on some of the earlier ones but that problem was fixed over 6 months ago. So how don't they work?
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12-03-2001, 09:01 AM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (laughin2.2)
Nothing. I was curious as to why you said the AEM bypass valve didn't work.
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12-03-2001, 09:38 AM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (laughin2.2)
I have sucked in water through my old CAI (has not happend with the AEM yet) a couple of times without submerging it. I have had to pull over on the side of the freeway and remove the filter and lower part of the pipe so I could drive. Luckily each time the amount of water was minute enough where it did not kill the motor, just made it run like ****!
12-03-2001, 10:07 AM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (Big James)
I have no doubt that a cai can suck up water and cause a motor to hydrolock. I'm just saying that the air bypass valve should be able to prevent this.
12-03-2001, 10:18 AM
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Re: No hydrolocking for me (laughin2.2)
I have no doubt that a cai can suck up water and cause a motor to hydrolock. I'm just saying that the air bypass valve should be able to prevent this.