ok so its rainy season now.. i just bought an AEM cold-air intake. now i installed this with a K&N air filter but it doesn't fit unless i take out the splash guard under my car. so i took it out. my question is, will my car hydrolock in my conditions? there are many puddles here in the bay area, CA. i have a lot of friends that tell me that it takes a lot of water to hydrolock an engine. but u can't be too careful ya know? btw i drive a 2dr 96 ls (b18b1). any input would be great, thanks!

 

You would have to fully submerge the filter to hydrolock your engine. Try to stay away from 2 foot deep puddles and you'll be just fine.

 

alright ill take that into consideration.. thanks..

 

hmM.. should i just put my SRI though?

 

HAHA i had the same ? i got hella paranoid i thought it would hydrolock.... everyone said you have to have the filter totally in h20 to hydrolock just dont give it ne gas if you dont know how deep.. ive gone threw some pretty big puddles and i was okay

 

lmao.. u from san jo? nice nice damn its rainy here now.. ~_~

 

I was also super paranoid when I had a CAI in my Celica GT. Now, I am just going the SRI route to keep me sane when driving around SF and SJ.

 

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lmao.. i know wut u mean.. last night i was driving home on 880 north. there were HELLA puddles.. i was like wtf? and omg.. i was going like 45mph on the freeway, and i hit this FAT *** puddle.. and since i have a 2" drop.. my car swurves to the right.. HELLA hard lmao.. i thought i was done for sure, but my car kept going lol. PARANOID!!! ~_~

 

actually i was thinking about it.. my car is hella low.. and now splash guard.. would that affect my hydrolocking question? lmao im sorry im really paranoid.. ~_~

 

i remember in the summer it was raining like crazy and i have the aem cai too and i was fine! that bypass valve was made just to cover aem's asses.

 

what bypass valve? sorry im dumb..

 

you don't have to worry that much. just get a by pass valve and you should be fine. unless you drive your car off into the ocean then thats a different story :D

 

I woudlnt run it if there is water. I had a 03 gti 1.8t and had a aem cold air intake, with a splash guard still on. I ran it through what looked to be a small puddle; ended up being about 4 feet deep. Needless to say, i locked my whole motor. Cost about 1000 dollars to get it pumped out and change the oil about 6 times. Dont run a cai, its just not worth it. Specially when you dont get any extra hp gains from it originally.

Mike

 

The HP Gain is not worth my peace of mind.

Here in SF, some puddles looks pretty small, but when I drove over it with my girl's SUV, that sh*t would have tanked the Teg.

Especially if I have to keep driving off from puddles, I will prolly get hit from the side. Crazy *** SF drivers.

 

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4 foot puddle?? I would think you're front bumper would be hurtin just as much as your motor... and probably your frame... pretty much the whole car

 

It gradually goes down to about that deep, honestly. I didnt drive thru all of it. My **** fucked up when I got to about 2 feet. But if you go walking thru it; i mean swimming; which is what we did, you realize its about 4 feet deep. It took many a car while it was there. I saw vans float across it; and just die.

Mike

 

bypass valve basically when the filter is submerged in water it performs a vacuum like effect and takes in the water from the upper intake tubing by the way the bypass valve is put in the middle of both of te connecting tubes.

 

TAKE IT OFF. My friend has a 93 ls integra, with a cold air intake, without the splash gaurd, because he had body work done. Well he went through a puddle only a few inches deep, slowly with the clutch in. HE HAS A BYPASS VALVE. Any how, it sucked in enough water to blow the 4th piston, that cylinder got filled with water and something snapped and went flying through the block. His intake manifold was covered in water, valve cover soaked, and the last 2 pistons were not firing, oil was pouring out of the front of the block. Now he needs a new engine. All of this damage was done with a bypass valve, in a few inches off water. So that line that you need to submerge your filter is a load of crap. The extra power is not worth blowing your motor. I will never run a CAI,

 

you guys just need to be more careful when driving in the rain. I used to rock the V2 CAI and had this **** happen one time and ever since then i have not let it happen again. if it rains have your homie drive you or your girl or even borrow a car if the rain that bad. expletive messing your prized posession up over some damn water. know what i'm saying. but i do know accidents do happen and that **** sucks equally as bad.

 

lesson learned. cold air intakes provide no extra power so why run them when it rains? why run them period. enough said

mike

 

yeah its not worth even the worry, im the kid whos car hydrolocked on him while going through a puddle. i agree and disagree with the theory about the whole filter being underwater. With me i think the water acumulated overtime because the water, once it did make it through the AEM filter sat at the bottom of the filter and soem of it made it up and kept my type R throttle body nice and moist and hung out in the intake manifold untill one day i pushed it all over the egde going through that last puddle. Enough made it into the chamber to snap the rod as the piston was compressing the air,and trying to compress the hydrogen molecules that are in the water and shot a peice of the rod right through thebottom of the block. I actually found some of the block resting on the radiator supports, its a nice good luck charm now

 

2000turbogsr
you can honestly say the power gains of a cai are worth having to find a ride every time it rains. SCREW THAT, its not worth it, just dont run cold air intakes in states that it rains.

 

not having to find a ride every time it rains, but just be more careful man. and i do like cai's beter sri. that just me tho. i live in WA and it rains more here than anywhere else in the country. i have only had that problem once, you just need to be careful about **** when you drive in the rain.

 

please lock this ******* thread, this is going nowhere

 

Boils down to...if you are even asking this question in regards of hydrolocking. Take out the CAI. This is because you are already worried about it in the first place. Not worth your sanity. This way, you can focus on just safely driving and enjoying your car. Forget the CAI, that is why I ordered a SRI...hehe