I was driving to a friends house last night and ran into a pretty deep pool of water and the car just died. Im not sure if its hydrolocked for certain. Im wondering what I should do; should I let it sit for awhile and dry up some? any advice would be helpful.

 

R you running a cold air intake?

 

pull all the spark plugs before you try to do anything! then if there's water in the cylinders, and you try and turn it over, it'll come out instead of bending a rod (which you may have already done)

 

PULL OUT

that really work?? btw, take off your intake arm, see if there is any water sign.

could be water going into muffler??

 

The water was little over ankle high. Yes I have CAI. Wouldnt the intire intake need to be submerged to get locked?

 

no, i have 2 friends that blew hydrolocked their motors going through semi-deep water pretty fast but not submerged, like when you go through it and it splashes up water 6 feeet in the air next to your car

 

You could also have splashed water all of your distributor or some important wiring harness...

 

Hydrolocked it is... I hooked some jumpers up because it didnt sound like it was getting juice from the battery and I got a clunk clunk your fucked. Guess its time to head to the dealership...Thanks for all the comments guys.

 

There's a guy in the F/S thread selling two short blocks if yours is fucked.

 

i just hydrolocked my s2k motor, i got oj compression 216 across, but leakdown numbers were 10-15% n each cylinder, and a hona mechanic said yo man those are good numbers and that honda doesnt have any set limits for leakdown.....ive found out hondas max leakdown limit is 10% and most dealers will tear down at 7%.

 

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Did you take out the plugs and turn it over? If you didnt and tried turning it over you fucked it up even more.............

 

Depending on the damage to the motor I might start looking at a K swap. Anyone know of some good sites that offer the K20R motor?

 

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Good luck on the repairs. I would verify the extent of the damage before proceeding.

 

yea i would talk to someone who knows more about this before going to the dealership because they will screw you everytime trying to get as much money out of you as possible. Good luck with everything man. I hope it all works out, and K series is the hottness!

 

good luck man