Well I was driving on the highway yesterday and it was really snowy. It was very windy and lots of snow was being kicked up by other cars. When I got off my exit, I realized my car sounded diffferent. The turbo spool up was much quieter and I could barely hear the dv.

So I pulled into a gas station and popped the hood. A lot of my engine bay was covered in snow including most of my air filter so that explained the sound difference.

Anyone have this happen to them?

What did you guys to fix it?

Thanks!

 

Plain and simple, you drive an Evo in the snow this is going to happen The front bumper just acts like a scoop almost and it ends up packing it everywhere in there. I had a friend that even had it get packed up all the way to the firewall. I hate it every time I even have to go out in the snow worrying about my front bumper being damaged.

 

Haha it was packed to the firewall. I feel the same when driving my car in the snow...but it drives so well in the snow .

 

Drive faster? That should warm the engine up and melt all the snow...

 

You shouldn't hear a DV anyway; a BOV you would.

 

Do you have an open element air filter? I'm in a snowy climate too (Minneapolis) and plan on waiting until spring to go with an open element intake. Even then I plan on fabricating a heatshield-- hopefully out of CF-- which will have a gasket on top to seal it against the hood. That should help with intake temps and gaurd against your situation.

But otherwise, I've never been in your shoes as my warm engine always melts it off. Never heard of this from anyone else either.

 

LMAO, I have a large hose run from Rexpeeds CF duct directly to my intake. I run a trickle charger to my battery every night and when I popped the hood last night there was snow EVERYWHERE.


Again guys, it's an Evo. She won't melt.

 

I have an open element filter

 

Any car no matter how hot it is can get snow in the engine bay. The fact of how cold it is outside right now + driving(wind chill) - engine temp. The cold ends up winning out. The snow will melt and freeze right back up again making it almost ice in there. This does happen quite frequently. Also, a DV does still make some noise even though it is not VTA like BOV would be. I had the stock DV on my DSM and it made plenty of noise. The snow in the engine bay would very easily dampen all noises from the engine compartment.

 

I'm thinking of making a similar heat shield. I was just wondering is anyone did anything different to protect the filter from the snow.

 

I was doing like 65-70.

All the snow melted off hot/warm surfaces. It just stuck on things like battery, filter, acd reservoir, firewall, etc

 

I just hit the self-wash car washes, pop in a $1.50 and spray the snow away with the warm high pressure water. I also hit the insides of the rims, the wheel wells and the springs. I just don't want that stuff freezing up into ICE block as it sits overnight. Ice can do damage as it rubs and falls off like rocks later.

 

Yeah I already do that on the outside..I don't think I want to high pressure wash the air filter...lol

I'm mostly concerned about the open element air filter incasing in snow.

 

Makes sense. I didn't pick up on the open element in your original post. All you can do then is just brush it off or use air to blow it off.

... maybe you can use the filter bags, put on for driving, take off after drive and let it dry:
http://www.knfilters.com/search/wrap.aspx

or, just put back to stock air box

 

If you are backing in deep snow with a Beatrush undertray you will find you have installed a snow scoop.