I have AEM 1 pc CAI and i take it off always when it rains. I put the filter on the intake manifold. Will it get wet? I really dont want to ruin motor. What can i do to rain proof intake so i can drive in the rain?

 

you could drive with it if you dont go over any puddles or you buy a bypass valve, cut the pipe, and install. thats what i did on my prelude. and putting the filter on the intake manifold is pretty much a sure way not to end up with waterlock, unless you get somekind of freeky water movement in your water bay... sorta defeats COLD air intake, but works.

 

A small amount of rain will do nothing really to your air filter. Most people make a small shroud around it, but then it struggles to get air. I've been using a shortram and I have had no problems. There is also a tube leading from the front of the bumper to where my intake sits.

 

I have no plastics underneath either were getting dumped on here I dont want to drive anymore in this crap. What would happen if water gets in the intake mani?

 

Leave your intake on, its fine. If you're worried about hydro locking your engine, either get a short ram, or get a bypass valve from aem. I highly doubt it rains enough in cali for there to be huge puddles. Water getting on your air filter is not going to destroy your engine. The only way you can hydro lock your engine is if the filter gets completely submerged in water. Its happened to me, I know.

 

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Actually, in a lot of places in CA we have flood problems and when it rains, it really rains. Is your CAI a two piece? If so just take the bottom pipe out during the winter and put the filter on the top piece. Bam, ram air intake, good to go.

 

are you serious? buy an aem bypass valve. put it on your car. dont worry about ever having to change your intake pipe again. ive been driving like this for almost 2.5 years, over 45k miles, through flash floods and hydroplaning, and have never damaged my engine.

 

Thanks alot, i'll do so.


I highly doubt it rains enough in cali for there to be huge puddles.&lt;-----yeah right there was water up to my friggin door last night i live 3 blocks from tha beach it dumps here, all the time.

 

+1 for aem bypass valve

 

short ram year round

 

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people with CAI should always invest in bypass valve as well, so they wont ask stupid questions like this

 

Just out of curiosity, do any of you know how the bypass valve actually works?

 

avoid puddles at all costs!!! i drive mine all the time in the rain never a problem.....until i went through the toll both and hit the biggest puddle ever!! the car instantly died and wouldnt start. everyone was yelling and honking at me totally sucked and my dumdass took the innerfender lining off also. listen to my advice then youll be good

 

get a snorkel like the what the SUV's use, hahah j/k

 

i dont know but its been raining every week for the past month or 2 here in so cal. and yea alot of streets get flooded real easy. just coast your car through big puddles and don't gas it.

 

Just get a bypass bro... AEM sells them....