Well i installed a AEM cold air intake on my car sometime ago, and it's just starting to rain around cali, i never bought one of those addition breathers, because i siad, "hey cali sun all the time wtf do i need that." Well that changed now.My car has been sucking up water into the intake and stalled out a few times going to work in the morning. I was wondering when the water goes up into the intake and makes the car stalls-out does that do any really bad damage to my car?!?!

 

oh man, look up the thread bout Babyboba29 with his hydrolock issue.

 

Yes. Definitly research hydrolock. But as another Cali driver with a CAI, the problem occurs when you submerge the filter in water - which means you're more than bumper-deep in a puddle. Thats some serious puddle-age! (please correct me if I'm wrong, but) if you can keep out of deep water like that, you should be ok.

...and northern CA or southern? I know it's raining in the SF Bay Area right now...

 

*sigh* search hydrolock, i made a pretty straight forward thread on this, with just about every relevant search key in the description.

 

i really dont go in deep water, i just dont have all that plastic stuff on my weel-well and under my car so it splashes from my tire stright into the cold air intake, my bust for breaking them and throwing them away, lol. I looked up hydrolock, i never heard of such a thing but i checked it out and wrote him a e-mail

 

i am in the same exact situation you are in. i have CAI and no inner fender lining, so i thought i was sucking up water as well. but i found out it was just my spark plugs because cyllinder 4 was missfiring. i may have sucked up water and possibly fouled the plugs prematurely, but i dunno about that.

 

aem cai turns into aem sri VERY easily ... i have an aem cai .. it started raining here .. car was sluggish, felt the filter and it was SOAKED (even though i have "Recharged it") .. so i jsut turned the cai into a sri for the winter/rainy season.

 

^If it isn't too much trouble, could you post a pic? Last time I poked around my engine bay last week, it didn't seem like the upper pipe had the right angle to accomodate the filter and MAF quite right.

 

hydrolock = death to your engine..i wish you the best of luck..kinda funny how everyone says it never rains in cali...ya...but when it does man man man does it rain..i bought the bypass valve...for $20 well worth it to me though...i stil turn my cai into a SRI when its pouring really bad...just to be on the safe side

 

I don't have that plastic thingy in the front of my bumper ......... rain, car wash, whatever, I never had a problem. Just make sure you have the bottom plastic underneath the car.

 

a few drops of water wont harm your intake/engine. now if you actually submerge the whole filter......... you're in trouble. make sure to check everything. sprak plugs, etc. etc. i highly doubt your filter is sucking up that much water. even though its getting sprinkled on you should be ok.

 

yeah, i have none of the plastic pieces underneath or anything. and as wet as ive seen my filter, it hasnt hurt anything.

 

plastik splash gaurd will not save you from anything...lol...your intake will only suck in water if its submereged like other people hav said...heavy rain and sprinkles will not harm it

 

^^^yeah, thats what im tryin to tell people.

 

I'll try and take a pic of my aem cai turned into an aem sri. really, just remove the tubing to the filter on the bottom and mount the filter directly to the mas adapter.