Intake Question - I need your participation!

[Scion Jon]

Okay, I am torn on what to do here.

I really really need to know what the likelyhood of hydrolocking my engine would be with a CAI. I live in Louisville, and its usually pretty wet here...lots of puddles. I want to get a CAI, but im hearing mixed responses.. WILL a puddle screw my car up? I have had friends whose done this...and ive also heard that you have to submerge a filter completely in water for like 5 minutes for it to do that...i just dont know what to do. is this true? thanks in advance.

[Hitt_and_Run]

Would take quite a bit of water to mess with it, just driving over a small puddle with water splashing up shouldnt do anything.

[StreetracerJay]

Yea get the cai but becareful. my buddy with his civic did it to his engine he went though a little over a foot after a hurracane and he lock that $hit up. Just go slow if it looks deep.

[zero__zero]

Okay, I am torn on what to do here.

I really really need to know what the likelyhood of hydrolocking my engine would be with a CAI. I live in Louisville, and its usually pretty wet here...lots of puddles. I want to get a CAI, but im hearing mixed responses.. WILL a puddle screw my car up? I have had friends whose done this...and ive also heard that you have to submerge a filter completely in water for like 5 minutes for it to do that...i just dont know what to do. is this true? thanks in advance.

I have an Injen CAI and have gone through a puddle approx. 6 inches...after the initial heart attack wore off, I realized that the car was running perfectly. Depending on which CAI you go with, you can always get a bypass valve - I know they make them for the TRD intake, and there is an AEM bypass for the Injen, though it's a b**ch to fit.

[tckilla06]

SRI = pussy

[navylife59]

I routinely power wash my engine bay. I have soaked my open element filter completely. Guess what? My engine starts up fine and runs normal. Unless your filter element is completely submerged in water, your engine will run fine. Engines can tolerate large amounts of water for brief periods. How many times are you going to go plowing thru 2 feet deep water? Answer, NONE. Small vehicles can be swept away in running water that is only a few feet deep. Play it safe and stay out of the water!

[DORK]

I hyrolocked my old S2000 with a short ram intake. Just enough water got splashed up and it sucked it right in driving through a deep puddle. As little as one ounce of water can hydrolock a high compression engine given the right freakish circumstances. It made no noise just stalled I thought. Upon further inspection a rod snapped in half and busted two holes through the short block. Hydrolock can and does happen. There's a reason stock intakes are designed the way they are and it's not just for sound reduction.