Cover the vent with one of these.

 

can you drive the car in teh rain? yes
then why would washing do anything

 

Whoa. What hood shield?

 

You know what the annoying part about a touchless wash? they dont seem to wash the trunk good cuz of the wing hehe. I need one of those hood shields, makes my evo look like one of those hot rods hehe j/k yuckie!

 

HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAH

 

Awwwww...
So not many people handwash our evos like I do here?

 

I do.

I'd be damned if I didn't.

 

I removed my hood vent like most....however I take great precautions when it rains..I put my motor in the trunk...! SERIOUSLY...as long as you are running the manifold heat shield you have nothing to worry about. If you run a header, then I would put the vent back on.. FWIW.

 

I used to handwash my evo every three or four days, then it was once a week, then it's once every 2 weeks, not until recently after those bastard hand wash guys scratched my evo big time that pissed me off, so it's either I wash my evo or it's touchless, cuz nobody touches my evo besides me and the machine washer

 

I hand wash every weekend with foam gun and boar's hair brush.

(Although I didnt have time to wash this weekend... im such a bad person )

 

Weird question... after the touchless car wash, they have that giant hairdryer on steriods blowing the car dry and I always worry the pressure will crack the wing... so I never go through it. Am I being delusional?

 

i just end up hand washing it. It's cleaner anyways. I only go to the touchless for an undercar spray.

 

The only thing you got to worry about is that if the car sits outside parked and it rains then you have to worry about things getting rusty and look like **** under hood like the headers and what not. If your like me and like everything clean looking.

 

To answer your question, yes. My Evos have always gotten hand-washes during the summer but in the winter I just run them through gas station touchless washes every week or two.

 

It's fun to take it around the block a couple times, get it hot, and stand off your porch and **** down into the vent. It steams a lot. =)