Hey, I hear about all these things about getting water sucked in by a CAI. Now I know its bad, but how easily does it happen. If im driving in just rainy weather is that going to damage anything or would I have to hit a puddle pretty good to allow the water to be sucked in?
oh ok, its just the way people talk about them and water started to scare me for a minute there, I thought just the slightest bit of water or a little puddle would screw it all up. thanks
Yeah my car is dropped and it was raining pretty bad and when I was entering my neighborhood, the puddle looked smaller then it really was so when I got in, my car was actually floating in it and I was just barely pressing on the gas when I first got in it, and sucked up some water. But the tow truck was in my neighborhood, pulled it out, and got the water out by stepping on the gas and turning the key non-stop. I do got to say though, there was so much white smoke that came out of the exhaust when he got it running.
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I drowned mine out back at college during a HUGE rainstorm. Was wading through a lower campus road when the car just stalled right out--TOTALLY forgot about the intake. To give you an idea of how high the water was, I almost couldn't open my door without it pouring in.
Unless your car is SUBMERGED like a lot of ours were, you'll be fine. If you live in an area where flooding is common, maybe a short-ram is a better choice for you.
Had mine on for a year now, no problems so far, however I'm not sure if your car has fenderlinings like mine - theyre the main reason why I think its so safe in there.
just get a bypass valve and install it in your intake pipe that way if the filter becomes submerged it will suck air out of the valve instead of sucking in water which will cause problems.
Thanks for all the input
I got one, not sure what kind but man are those things a pain in the butt to install. I don't know if the one I bought just sucked or what but I almost kicked my car a couple times putting it on. Other then that I'm gonna hate this thing cuz the sound my engine makes now is so cool I always wanna bury it.
if you do go with a cold air, and if you do drive through deep water, whats best to do to clear water out is to remove your spark plugs, and crank the car. you will have no compression and the water will be blown out your spark plug holes, then reinstall the plugs and run the car to burn out any excess water.
if you injest water and just crank the car to hope to flush the water out your exhaust valves, you could wind up bending your crank or snapping a rod, since your trying to compress a fluid, which is impossible
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Where's the best place to install the bypass valve? I didn't know where to put it, cause there really wasn't much place it would fit. I ended up jaming it in the front, but it kinda rubs against the front, also it blocks the oil cartridge (which I didn't know was on top when I installed this). but it seems to work OK here, see:
i would of replaced the rubber coupler that holds the plastic tube to the metal one with the bypass. but the bypass is not realy needed imo
Just another quick question. since there are no mounting brackets or anything, are the rubber connector pieces that come with the intake strong enough to hold it up?
The RKSport short ram I have on my car mounted to the powersteering pump's lower bolt
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