so i was a little late to work yesterday and so i really wasent thinking of the car... i have a cold air intake and i dint bother to take one of the extensions off to make it SRI... long story short. went over a puddle.. not even that big.. and the motor got hydrolocked. i dont have money for a new k20... but what are the options that im looking at.. what can i do or should i do so that i wont loose alot of cash.. i mean what doeas a salvaged si go for without a motor? by the way its got 34k miles, Injen CAI, HFP lip kit, OEM fogs,17"hfp wheels, Kenwood indash with garmin gps,TEIN springs. and new yokohama rubber...HAte my life.

Stupid SoCal palmdale weather.

 

warrentee? throw the factory air box back on..

or take it to insurance?

 

take it to insurance, it'll probably get rebuilt at honda.
put the factory air box back on if you're really worried.

 

lol. goodluck trying warranty. best bet is to look for a salvaged si

 

the same thing happend to my friends 02 ish civic, he put the factory air box on and took it in for warrentee

 

can you say "Fraud"?

and OP, what are the symptoms? how do you know it's hydrolocked?

 

damn.. im thinking like.. selling it. what you guys think i'll get ?... as far as warantee goes. the car is salvaged.. so there is none through honda .. i do have allstate full coverage.. although i dont think that they will pick up the tab....

as for symptoms.. after i went over the puddle .. i was only like 1/2 mile away from home .. but i heard like ticking... the i was like , crap i better get it home... i only made it to the end of that street before i heard some nasty grinding and then the motor stopped all on its own..

 

so your car already had a salvage title before you hydrolocked the motor?

 

ya

 

would you guys suggest doing like a k20/k24 hybrid project? what would be the cost to replace? the k20 alltogether?

 

the hybrid motor will need tuning to run properly. youd be better off buying a new motor.

 

whats that cost tho? is it ideal to do the swap on my own?

 

Which, unfortunately, is very common of the import "scene" nowadays. It's disgusting.

 

3-4k to do.

 

Are you sure its hydrolocked? My cousin went through a puddle in his accord and his car shut off. We took off the intake pipe, pulled the plugs out, turned the motor over, reinstalled the plugs and it finally stated again. He got lucky.

G/L to you op, if it did blow that will be an expensive bill.

 

well im not sure, at first i went throught the puddle and it shut off, then i turned it on .. and there was a ticking sound.. so i was like damn. then it started grinding nasty as hell.. then it started making some kinda loud grinding noise. then it died.

back to it being waterlogged.. would that not just mess my head up and not the block?

 

describe the puddle.......how far down was you car sunk in the above mentioned puddle.......
till where was the water level when you were driving through the puddle.....

 

A k20/k24 hydbrid probably will not run into the lack of tuning the z3's had if you goes with an a2 or z1 head.

OP: Do you live in California, is so a hybrid motor will not pass emissions.

 

Why don't you just fix it! Pull the spark plugs out and turn the motor over by hand and get the water out....then take the cylinder head off and check for bent valves. But once you get the water out you can do a compression check and see if everything is still sealed or not

 

why not? will the ECU compensate for the different motor?

 

That doesn't always work.

 

unless he shut it off exactly when it happened he has no chance.

 

Don't blame the weather....blame yourself. You knew the risks when you made the decision to install the CAI and run over a puddle. And now you've just spent several thousands of dollars just to gain a few WHP.

Next time stick with a SRI...you'll save yourself from a big headache.

 

put in a stock airbox and call insurance. my friend had a 01 gsr he did that with. a week later he got a check for 4,500 from insurance. you gotta take it to honda for them to diag it though. once they diag it call insurance and tell them the story...make sure u have a stock box though. cheers.

 

Yeah that doesn't sound good......if you hadn't turned it back on you may have been able to save it.