tritech

 

Our car is a damn rally car...it's made to drive through puddles, rain, snow and mud...and keep on racing all day long. You're fine.

 

well.... i parked my car once outside where it rained about 2+ inches, i'm talking HEAVY rain and puddles of water got inside my engine compartment via hood vent, started the car next day and it sounded kind of weird but after everything dried up it was fine....

 

i have a 94 ranger that i would trade straight up. no rain problems either hahaha

 

Only avoid your mission if the road has more than 1ft of water!

 

Evos come with water sprays for the intercooler on them so Im pretty sure it is ok to get them wet...... The only thing I would worry bout is the crappy mitsu paint and how letting the water sit on the car will mess it up over time. Just a warning!!

 

Water is ok to get on the intercooler, it works as a cold water intake. Just be careful not to get it dirty, your motor doesn't like dirt.

 

One of the fellows I work with, driving home from work in his brand new pickup, hit a puddle, splashed water into the intake and hydrolocked the engine. The fix for that adventure was a new engine. We sit a lot lower than a pickup so watch the deep water.

 

no! don't do it! avoid all puddles and never drive even if it's drizzling!

what a way to live life ahaha.

 

This pickup event occurred after a big rain and their was minor flooding in the streets. Still, DSM's didn't have a cold air intake, the intake was behind the radiator (in a corner of the engine compartment by the fender) and I know of hydrolocking in those cars.

So, driving in rain is no danger but driving into standing water is, especially if you are moving fast enough to splash it up to the level of the intake.

Water isn't compressible. When it gets into a cylinder of a running engine something has to give. Usually the rods are bent so badly the engine locks.

 

The intercooler doesn't do any type of "induction".

 

Wow dude.. That's the craziest NOOB question I've ever read.. But at least it seems like an honest question, so you get bonus points for ir.. Welcome to the zoo...

 

The only thing the dealership tells you to do is NOT to drive it in the snow with the stock advans on. Has a small sticker on the side of the door.

 

It take a quite a bit of water to get an air intake to be able to suck up enough water to hydro lock an engine. A splash of water on an air filter isn't going to do it. It must have been one hell of a puddle for a pickup truck to hydro lock, especially a stock air intake track. The most common hydrolock situation are those cold intakes with the air filter just behind the front bumper cover. A deep puddle with some of the air filter immersed is insant hydrolock.

 

You guys didn't read the giant 'For Summer Driving Only' sticker on the steering wheel?