Well it started raining yesterday here in LA.. and today it started pouring. I was on my way to school this morning, when i started to hear this really loud bogging noise from under my car.. not sure where exacly...front or under the hood.. but it sounded something like popping or boiling water so i put it into neutral and just let it roll on its own.. till i started going too slow i put it in 4th and next thing you know the car just turned off on me, so i got scared and turned the key to turn it back on..on like my second try it turned back on. I wasnt that far from school, so i took it all the way. On the way back from school i took mostly the side streets... well thats the story.. now i'm at home and i got a question.. do i need to do that trick of pulling out the spark plugs and cranking the motor manually?? or do i just let it sit their and will the water dry out if theirs any in it?? is it anything i should worry about?? TIA

 

yeah its been raining ******* hardcore...

about your car... if it runs, it runs. no need to pull the plugs and crank it. if its running there is no water in your system. just revv it up for a while. what kind of intake do you have?

 

o yea sorry.. i have an AEM CAI.. so i guess just leave it like this over night and it will be ok tomorrow??

 

i wouldn't just leave it. let it run for like 15 minutes

 

k.. thnx.. i hope nothing happens.. i can't afford for my motor to break on me right now.

 

i would pull the plugs out and crank it over and maybe change the oil u may have bent a valve.

 

yea... think the valve is bent?? well i turned it on and left it on for 15 mins it sounds ok.. would it still turn on if i bent the valve?? the oil change im just going to do till the sun comes out.

 

yah its been raining super hard here in LA, freakin i made my iceman a short ram as soon as i saw DAMN RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
hope ur motor runs

 

you would know it if you hydrolocked. either 1. car would not run at all or 2. Loud clanking coming from under the hood (like someone beating on the block with a 5lb sledge). Like was said before, if it's running ... let it run

 

it is fine man I have had that happen a few times if it starts and runs than it is ok, just now u know when ur intake is suckin up all that water so u know better now

 

how much water has to fly thru the intake..... some homeboy told me that he drives it like that all the time.... and i have been driving my car all around town with the filter on.... i thought that you get hydrolock when alot of water goes into your system.... becouse the aem booth at sema had a intake sucking water from a tank.. and the water valve thing opened when the water got too heavy..... if it only takes a couple of drops of water to bust your block.... then the bypass valve doesnt work.....

 

happend to me too so far so good. i would change the oil anyhow and see if there is any water in there. hope it all works out for you.

keith

 

To expand upon this:
If you're unlucky enough to hear a knocking sound, you're in a lil too deep...LoL

It does'nt take much time to suck in enough H2o to break a rod, or send one through the block. Your intake will devour water in no time flat, so if you had damage, you would have already known. You probably just got your distribtor wet...You're pretty fortunate.

 

u said u started to drive really slow then u put it in 4th and ur car shut off, maybe it bogged down below idle and stalled who knows

i doubt its damaged since it runs without any unusual sounds

 

As soon as it started getting all wet around here, I installed the short ram over the cai. Yea im paranoid, but better safe then sorry right

 

yea, i was pretty much scared to put it in 3rd since the more you rev, the more the intake sucks in... so i was trying to keep it low...but yah.. now that you guys tell me that if it turns on its ok.. makes me feel better.. i let it idle for 10-15 mins and everything seems fine so far.. tomorrow i'll be taking my GFs del sol to school, i'm pretty much scared that something might happen to my baby! -=x

 

that's what i did today.. I got so scared that I cut my AEM in half so i made it a short ram until the rains goes away i'll turn it back into cold air.

Why is it raining so hard anyways? its goign toward summer... this is weird

 

LoL. We're in the dead of winter in case you did'nt notice not to mention we (usually) get most of our rainfall in late January-late March, so be prepared....It aint over yet. Besides, we need the snowfall, too, I'm so depressed ( B/c I have only been up once this year )


[Modified by sinister, 3:16 AM 2/13/2003]

 

y0 Sin we gotta hit the snow wit the boards

 

get that **** out of your cylinders! dont let the water sit.. That will **** up your cylinders bad! Are you sure that is what is was? it could be a connection of some sort... Oh, and rain??? WTF??

 

its el nino season.

 

EL NINO is fun (WITH A REAR WHEEL DRIVE) hehe i drift in my BMW when it rains LOL its so damn fun!

 

Like 2 weeks ago my intake sucked in water when I was cleaning my engine.... My car was making weird noises. I let it idle for like 20 mins and it's been fine since then.