not my car but thought I would post this up to remind everyone that sucking up water with a CAI isn't a good thing.

credit to Derek from www.mitsunation.net for the picture

 

credit the pic to picture belongs to Derek from www.mitsunation.net

 

KOOL! I might try it next time it rains...

 

I just don't get how people do it ? I drove through some of the worst rains we have had with my CAI.

 

this is the only reason pretty much im gonna go SRI instead

 

I've come pretty damn close. My engine did suck in water, not enough to hydrolock, but enough to stall it and took me about 10 minutes of cranking to get it all out and started again. I had to drive through what should've been a shallow puddle, but it seems the puddle was hiding a rather deep pothole, which my left front tire went into. That was enough to do it.

 

on my last car my mechanic installed a sock type product over my cold air intake, it was made specifacally for my K&N air intake whenever you mount it low in the car,
it lets air in but not water.

 

Sick !! So let's make the cai vs sri thread get back. haha Add the section, consequence...

 

Poor little guy's they never saw it coming

I don't understand the CAI thing with these cars, we have intercoolers...

 

you have an intercooler we don't (well, most of us)

has to surround the filter, seems to me that I remember hearing in the news you should never drive through water assuming it's shallow enough to traverse. potholes like otter suggested are one thing, but it should be pretty easy to tell if the water is going to be deep or not.

 

wow... thats not cool at all.

 

Yea man I had an 01 eclipse and went through a bad *** rainfall engine stalled and this was after 2 weeks of having my CAI. I freaked out but luckily i didn't end up like the first pic

 

def not cool but I dont think we get enough rain here to be worried about it plus I will try and avoid the puddles

 

ive seen worst

 

well, I haven't seen it at all, pwnd by websense as usual.