i am out off the country on my vacation in UA.. i was informed that MD got alot off rain the past few days by my girlfriend well i was concerned since my mom is driving my car. i was wonderning is it possible to get water into the intake on a SRI. well this is what is done its still teh stock piping w/o the air box and a peice off intake tube w/ K&N filter on the end. and all hangs where the stock box would be.
Please let me know since im gone for another month in half


Accord 00 V6


Modified by Ruskimafia at 7:09 AM 7/9/2006

 

here's the deal, is the air filter inside your bumper area? if it's bellow the metal that basicly split your air box in half, then you have a higher chance of hydrolock, especially if you don't have an air bypass valve.

If your air filter is above the metal then you have just as much of a chance for hydrolock as the car would be stock, just make sure you stay out of water more then 1/2 foot to 1 foot plus.

Basicly, keep the water level half a foot or more bellow your air filter and you should be ok.

 

my air filter is where the stock air box is in the engine bay not in the fender so im on the safe side right ?

 

its safe as long as you dontdrive in 2ft of water.

 

I hydrolocked in my car and I had a SRI. But it only hapened because I hit a 1/2 feet puddle at 60 mph on the highway. Stay away from highways when its raining.

 

Listen, just drive carefully if you have an SRI or CAI. I have a CAI on my accord (which is placed much lower than an SRI) and I drive it in the rain all the time. I just avoid puddles. It's not that easy to hydrolock with an intake during normal driving in the rain, you need to almost completely submerge the filter in water.

PS: Never drive your car through a puddle more than 5" deep, unless you have a snorkel, it's just a bad idea, even if you have a stock intake.

Good luck.

 

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Typically, highways have better drainage than local and secondary roads, so I'd actually stay away from local roads than highways when it's raining. Plus, law enforcement is much more likely to close highways than local roads for flooding. You're more likely to run into open flooded secondary roads than open flooded highways because highways are used by more people.

 

Yep, even stock intakes and SR intakes can hydrolock. Stock intakes hydrolock less since their intake tubing is a lot longer before the filter and takes more water in to cause hydrolock. Short ram doesn't have that extra length but you're procted by the height distance from the ground to the filter. So you should be fine in most cases but do not drive through floods or on roads with standing water. If you search for my recent posts, I hydrolocked coming into a blind turn with a CAI. That was on a mall entrance where mall security forgot to close it and the puddle was at least 2 feet high right after the turn.

 

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Typically, highways have better drainage than local and secondary roads, so I'd actually stay away from local roads than highways when it's raining. Plus, law enforcement is much more likely to close highways than local roads for flooding. You're more likely to run into open flooded secondary roads than open flooded highways because highways are used by more people.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Oh really ?! Then explain how you hydrolocked in a mall parking lot ? Sorry man, I had to get you on that one haha

 

no, if the area you lived in had flood waters that high you should invest that money for ur SRI in a raft