Just curious if water has gotten into anyones engine with their Cold air intake installed correctly with all the splash guards in place... In heavy rain or light rain.

 

Its the deep puddles that you have to worry about...

 

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I had all my splash guards in place and I hydro locked my engine.
I wasnt driving in any water that was deep, or anything like that. It was just raining really hard. sucky day

 

I have never had that problem B4..But to be safe if you think its going to rain hard for the next few day i would change over to a SRI or stock air box to be safe

 

NO. don't drive through water that is deeper than your filter height and you are fine.

drive through deeper and you deserve hydro lock.

common sense is a hot commodity!

 

On my 92 RS, there was a good seal between my CAI and the hole cut out leading to the front cavity. With everything bolted up, a vacuum was formed in the cavity, causing the water level to gradually raise. If the water on the road reaches the lower panel, the level inside the cavity can rise and reach the filter.

I know because I hydro-locked my car idling thru a long skim of water no more than 7 or 8 inches deep. The car stalled out. Being a numb-nutt I tried to restart the car. I couldn't believe that the water got to the filter. The starter forced the piston over and bent the rod. It ran with the clak, clak, clak sound and knew right away that the rod was bent. dangit

I replaced the rod, and cut the intake down to a short ram, and she now has over 300k miles and counting, no problems.

 

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I know because I hydro-locked my car idling thru a long skim of water no more than 7 or 8 inches deep.
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that is DEEP water to be going through with any car (i.e. not an suv or truck). why are people driving through such depths? doesn't make sense to me...

 

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that is DEEP water to be going through with any car (i.e. not an suv or truck). why are people driving through such depths? doesn't make sense to me...</TD></TR></TABLE>

I agree... even without a CAI, I would never drive through 7 or 8" of water. Now that I do have a CAI, I try to avoid all puddles.

Driving in the left lane during rain hould help keep the filter dry because roads are made so that the rain will flow away from the middle of the road. Since the CAI filter will be located on the right and rain flows away from there, the water should be less deep.

 

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I agree... even without a CAI, I would never drive through 7 or 8" of water. Now that I do have a CAI, I try to avoid all puddles.

Driving in the left lane during rain hould help keep the filter dry because roads are made so that the rain will flow away from the middle of the road. Since the CAI filter will be located on the right and rain flows away from there, the water should be less deep.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Theres no way to be completely safe.
As I stated above, I got hydrolocked going through water that was barely standing. It wasnt flooding at all. If I had to guess, there may have been 2-3 inches of water on the ground, and I got hydrolocked like a motherf*cker. If I were you, I'd leave all the splash guards, as well as getting AEMS water bypass thing.

 

personally i wouldn't run a big CAI because i would be afraid of sucking up water. I've seen it happen to people so when my car was stock, i had a ghetto-rigged short ram instead

 

just buy the bypass kit from AEM or go short ram. 3 of my friends had their engines hydrolock last summer when we we're on a cruise and had a heavy downpour