i just did a lil mocking up today, changed the intake around since i dont want to run cold air intake.. id rather not hydro lock my motor any time soon so i tucked it up under the hood. also i customized the greddy rs bov whistle tip to be a recirculating adapter.. i just cut part of it off ith the dremmel..

 

hrmm.. i wouldnt worri about hydro locking r motors. i think the maf kinda makes that hard to do.

u have alot of intercooling pipeing for air/water to get threw.. but it first has the pass threw MAF.. which with my experience normally causes the car to cut off before and real damage occurs because its readings start to get really screwy.. or atleast on my car it does.

 

i know what you mean... but i would just rather not suck up any water at all...

 

Take it from first hand experience, it can happen haha. I (like an idiot) drove through a very large puddle back in college when i had my CAI on and i literally was .00001 second away from hydrolocking. I most definately sucked up water. The engine bogged down and kept tryin gto stall, white smoke out the tailpipe. I pulled into a parking lot and kept trying to keep the engine running and keep it from stalling. It burned through whatever it sucked up and luckily came out still ticking without a problem. Needless to say my heart was in my stomach for a solid day after that.

That being said, with the turbo, a cold air intake will help, but the intercooler does most of the work. Better idea would be to route some kind of ducting and build a cold air box instead.

 

Agreed, MAF doesnt save your motor from hydrolock by any means. I just went through a very costly set of swaps due to hydrolock. Didnt have my car all summer. Flash floods and CAIs dont mix very well at all. And it was only like 6in. of water, yet still got sucked into my intake. I advise you to do what your doing if your seeing alot of rain, ill never run another CAI after that.

 

Defiantly not hit a huge pot hold when I had a cai. pictures of the rod pieces. It broke 1 into a few pieces and bent the heck out of another.

 

That picture makes little baby jesus cry

 

yeah i dont see a whole lot of water here in southern california but either way, i worry too much about having a cold air on.. and like sticktght311 said.. thats what i have an intercooler for(=

 

wait wtf? u did this before being turbod? i have 6 rods like this to your 2.. but mine were all at 16psi and 100+mph. lol

 

Water doesnt compress so the rod gave first when he got water in the system from the cai. My injen sucked in water but my maf killed the car before it did anything bad.

 

Yah i was following a honda on a road we were getting ready to race and boom! i hit that pot hole and it was over. It was the biggest pot hole in the world. Water came over my hood. When i pulled the intake off it was filled with water and the oil pan had water in it also. It sucked but what ever i guess you win some and loose some and i lost that day. O and i wasnt going fast maybe 35mph.

 

Can you still close the hood?

 

Well I didnt know rod breaking was something to be proud of but, oh well, heres my pictures. I wont run a CAI ever again in oregon. Bad idea. It actually didnt snap the rod, it just bent the rod and I drove about 20 miles and the engine just exploded.

 

Yeah it just barely clears.. Closes perfect though.. don't have to force it or anything.