How can I protect my cold air intake from rain?

 

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hes being an *** because you need to search. this topic has been covered many times.

the only thing you can really do is get a bypass valve. there isnt enough of a difference in a CAI and SRI that would make me want to risk my motor.

 

you can buy a Bypass Vlave from AEM. It is installed on the tube inside the enigine bay. i forget how much they are. And its not the rain that gets in the filter. Its the puddles of water

 

Avoid large bodies of standing water. I ran a CAI for 3 years in New England, and I've never had an issue. A little common sense goes a very long way.

 

Thanks for the posts I will probably get a bypass valve sorry for posting when there is the topics i will look from now on

 

Sorry man, I usually don't mess with people on here. I just had to man, that was too obvious of a question. But I'm somewhat of an experienced Honda person so maybe I'm just being a dick. I just thought you'd get a kick out of that answer...lol By the way, I'm not a ***, I'm married...lol

 

a bypass valve pretty much defeats the purpose of having a cai in the first place, colder air.

dont drive through enough water to submerge the filter and you're fine.

 

bpv

 

I had a bad problem when I was running an AEM cai in my car, 97 civic w/ LS motor. The filter sat on the lower splash shield, i guess thats just the way the LS intake fits in the civic chassis. Anyways, ANYTIME it rained that filter would get wet. Normal driving in rain it would get wet. I mean just being parked in my driveway the filter would get soaked. Like ivteC_PoWeR said, I was getting sick of putting my motor at risk so I switched to a short air intake .

 

You can cut the intake piping a bit so it won't sit so low, and again, avoid puddles

 

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I assume you already got one, and the bypass valve should work. At one point, the bypas valves were defective, and the element inside would collapse and get sucked into the manifold. Check to see if this has been cleared, since this was AEM's design, quite some tme ago.

But if you dont have the CAI yet, consider looking into the Comptech Icebox. It's a short ram intake but with a box to isolate the intake from the heat of the engine, and it has a snorkel where is can draw in cooler-ambient air from behind of the bumper. There's also no risk of hydrolock!

Look it up...

 

my buddy made a like cage,underneath to protect it from water..he just got some cheap metal from Home Depot...Works great

 

oh and if it looks deep....chances are it is deep lol. Common sense, like said above.

 

Keep your fender liner intact, don't drive stupidly, and you should be fine. It also helps if your car isn't lowered by some ridiculous amount.

Don't buy the bypass valve. I'd buy a short ram intake long before a bypass valve.

 

plug up a portable fan to blow the water away.

 

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Best advice yet. Keep ALL your fender liners and splash shields in place. This is why so many people screw their motors up and blame the cai when it was really them removing the shields or doing something else totally stupid like driving a slammed car through 2 feet of standing water... common sense always rules the day. I've used a cai for the last 7 years in a very rainy climate and NEVER had any problems.

 

bypass valve

 

Hey is there a way you could show me a picture of how your friends cage looks sounds like a good idea!

 

Either that, or purchase a water bypass valve. I've had my K&N CAI installed for about 8 months in rainy WA.. No problems at all.

 

If you have your splash shield and fender liner intact, you don't need a cage.

I've driven in "monsoon-like" conditions and through puddles, and I haven't had a single issue with mine.

 

well today was my first rainy day driving with it and my intake was covered in sand and mud so im cleaning it

 

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It doesn't rain all that often in Tucson. I doubt you'll have much more of an issue. Just wait until after rainy season, after September you should be fine.

 

lol okay well once again thanks for all the input