True Cold Air Intake Sucking Up Water?
Jul 7, 2009, 09:29 PM
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True Cold Air Intake Sucking Up Water?
Hey I'm just wondering if anybody here has the AMS Peformance Cold Air Intake with a fog light delete or mesh on the driver side to increase airflow?
I'm just worried about water going through the filter up to the MAF/turbo. Any ideas?
I'm just worried about water going through the filter up to the MAF/turbo. Any ideas?
Jul 8, 2009, 10:27 AM
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AEM Bypass valve does not work with a force induction car. I would not worry about it too much. A few drops of water wont hurt your car. You would have to sumerge the entire filter to hydrolock your car. Just dont drive your car in a flood or through a large body of water.
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These questions often surface regarding true cold air intakes ingesting water into the motor. In my experience you would have to drive your vehicle into a lake for this to happen. A bit of exaggeration but you get the idea.
Jul 8, 2009, 12:33 PM
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With a GSR and the stock front bumper, its covered pretty good meanwhile still letting air travel in with the ducting. I purchased the SC cold air intake and it comes with a shield to install behind the filter so the elements wont get in from the wheel well. I think it works pretty good. Its been raining like a hurricane here in NJ for the past few weeks and I haven't had any issues. And, when I say hurricane, i'm not exaggerating. I was worried something was going to happen to my car, but all was well.
Jul 8, 2009, 12:37 PM
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cold air intakes have always scared me...especially if the vehicle is lowered...i've had 2 friends with stock ride height srt4 just suck some water up and hydrolocked their motors...so just be careful with cold air intakes on street driven cars...obviously don't drive into large puddles...haha...
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With a GSR and the stock front bumper, its covered pretty good meanwhile still letting air travel in with the ducting. I purchased the SC cold air intake and it comes with a shield to install behind the filter so the elements wont get in from the wheel well. I think it works pretty good. Its been raining like a hurricane here in NJ for the past few weeks and I haven't had any issues. And, when I say hurricane, i'm not exaggerating. I was worried something was going to happen to my car, but all was well.
I'm talking about a cold air intake with a fog light delete so you can pretty much see the filter from the front of the car. Anyone have this kind of setup?
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Whatever drops of water that would make it all the way to the turbo (keep in mind, your talking about 2 1/2 to 3 feet of piping) would most likely evaporate due to the heat of the turbo IF it got that far...
The only time I would worry about something like hydro locking the motor is if you plan on driving in 10" + of water, or you happen to hit a huge puddle of water while in full boost.. that could be bad.
As far as performance gains go...I think it would be a great idea for the fog delete mesh grill, and the filter right there... it would act like a ram air style sucking in massive amounts of cold air as your speed increased.
-Chris
The only time I would worry about something like hydro locking the motor is if you plan on driving in 10" + of water, or you happen to hit a huge puddle of water while in full boost.. that could be bad.
As far as performance gains go...I think it would be a great idea for the fog delete mesh grill, and the filter right there... it would act like a ram air style sucking in massive amounts of cold air as your speed increased.
-Chris
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Well I am considering the Rexpeed fog light delete and was just looking for people's input on the idea. In FL we get a lot fo rain and i dunno if water could hit the filter and make it all the way back to the turbo.
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I don't know about the placement on the X but I have driven through ****-storms here in Seattle with my open-filter intake on my IX and have never had an issue. I'm guessing the X is lower since people are referring to a fog-delete.
Dec 17, 2013, 05:51 PM
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Whatever drops of water that would make it all the way to the turbo (keep in mind, your talking about 2 1/2 to 3 feet of piping) would most likely evaporate due to the heat of the turbo IF it got that far...
The only time I would worry about something like hydro locking the motor is if you plan on driving in 10" + of water, or you happen to hit a huge puddle of water while in full boost.. that could be bad.
As far as performance gains go...I think it would be a great idea for the fog delete mesh grill, and the filter right there... it would act like a ram air style sucking in massive amounts of cold air as your speed increased.
-Chris
The only time I would worry about something like hydro locking the motor is if you plan on driving in 10" + of water, or you happen to hit a huge puddle of water while in full boost.. that could be bad.
As far as performance gains go...I think it would be a great idea for the fog delete mesh grill, and the filter right there... it would act like a ram air style sucking in massive amounts of cold air as your speed increased.
-Chris