Heres the story.....Installed the RRM Intake about 4 months ago and love it. Had no problems until about last week when the car had an issue and dropped rpms below 2k and would not provide any power. After a couple of trys to restart, everything was fine. The problem reared its ugly head again after a couple of days and the CEL came on and the problem returned but would not remedy no matter how long I tried. I had the car towed to the garage expecting a little problem. Apparently when i installed the intake, i left the plastic air "funnel" installed and when it rained the water would suck up into it and drip out the open end. Condensation was also a problem given that I live in NC. The water slowly dripped onto some very expensive electrical components and fried them! This could have all been prevented by removing a cheap part that serves no purpose! Learn from someone elses mistakes and remove that "funnel" if you have an aftermarket SRI! PS- Not covered under warranty in that it is not the stock setup and thats what caused the problem!

 

What funnel. Are you talking about the tunnel thing that connected to the stock air box. I will take a look at it tom cuz I have the RRM intake. You should have put the stock ai box back on before you took it in.

 

I have been on this forum a while now just looking around and gathering information. I have never really posted anything, but this one caught my eye. I don't have an aftermarket intake, just a stock one, but I thought I would throw this out there.

First, I am assuming you mean the black plastic tube that was formerly attached to the stock airbox and runs to the front of the engine bay and ends just above the top radiator support.

If that is the part, how can the water be sucked up that tube? There is no suction on the other end (ie. the original stock airbox). It deffinately was not the SRI sucking air through it, too many other less restrictive paths for water and air to enter the engine bay. I can see how if you drive in the rain, the air pressure from the front of the car could force air and water into that tube, but remember the tube is pretty high up behind the weather stripping of the hood line. Not a lot of water there.

Another point, how much condensation could your SRI add to your engine bay compared to stock? Not any more than usual.

Also, it's an engine bay, water gets in there. Look at your hood liner, it has water marks (and if you live in anywhere where they salt the roads, salt stains). I would think that this sensitive and expensive piece of electirical equipment would have some form of water proofing.

Maybe it was not your fault by installing the intake? Maybe the water proofing of the component failed? Just a thought that you could bring back to the dealer and maybe have them look at the issue as a warranty related problem. I can't see how you leaving this extra piece of tubing could cause so much water to enter your engine bay (any more than normal) and cause this part to fail. Even if water did drip from the tube and onto the component.

The only real issue I can see is that the stock airbox was used to protect this electronic componet. Hmm...

Just my 2 cents.

 

dude is effed b/c he went to the dealer with his sri on and they are gonna say "if he hadn't put the sri in, this problem wouldn't have happened".. bingo put a fork in it ur done... thank god i live in the desert lol

 

Always Put Oem Parts Back On Before You Go To The Dealer. Especially Something Easy Like The Airbox

 

hey eagle.. how do you like ur pully?? do u have a manual or auto?? sorry im going off topic..

 

when the vehicle is stock, the air tube connects straight to the air box and is sealed.

because he has an aftermarket set up, the air tube is only partialy sealed, it has an open end and since he lives in a humid area, the condensation which always bulds up in side it formed in to droplets and spilled on to his electronics.

possible.

yet ridiculous that they voided your warranty because of that. that can not be proved i don't think. it's their theory.

if your car breaks, put it back to stock before you send it in.

 

well its too late now.... lol

 

I love the pulley. I have the RRM SRI and pulley and love the combo. I had the SRI first and the best way I can describe it is that the pulley made the car feel much lighter. I have the 5 speed and thought the car was sluggish in first and second gear. The pulley made a huge difference. I recommend it to every lancer owner. (There is a huge thread about it like 30 pages) Those guys can probably give you better info on the pulley.

 

Couldnt replace the stock parts, I was out of town with the wifey and it happened out of town. Can't help it. Just trying to warn all you guys of any possible problems.

 

Well at least now you can go nuts with mods and not have to worry

 

lol wait your telling me that the same intake system used for stock/ stock box sucks up water? I am not saying its impossible, but that funnel peice that I think your refering to bulls air from the front thru a small slice of lined holes up and into the engine area where the intake box is or would be in a SRI situation. Assuming your car was still stock then that stock box would be filling of water.

Second i am not sure what electrical stuff there is to fry, I have seen the dealer wash off the engine for a lot of cars. Everything that is critial wouldnt not be exposed.

I am not saying what your saying is not true, but its really hard to get water into the engine bay as it is. if you pope the hood, you will see where the funnel system starts when you remove it. its really hart to get water to go up, you gotta be going real fast and its gonna be raining a flood. I have been under hood more times then I can count developing a CAI, when it comes to the stock funnel its pretty safe to keep in their. that and the fact that it keeps dirt from going everywhere in your engine bay.

 

If I remember correctly, the "funnel" has holes in the underside, so water really wouldn't be able to collect there in any significant capacity. Plus, it's not flat; there's a grade to it, so the water would have to go "uphill" before it could get to the end of the funnel. Water would have to FLOW EN MASS to get from one end to the other then spout out the other end, stop in mid air, then turn, and then spray forward towards the front of the car. I call shenanigans on this one...something else messed up your car, but it wasn't the stock air funnel.

 

yeah umm i would tell the dealer to eff off! I have steam cleaned my engine bay and no problems! Anything that is in the engine bay thats electrical is weatherpacked. Except for the ground wires off the battery. But without weatherpacking connections and sensors, the pins would corrode and cause all sorts of codes to fly up. I call bs on the dealer!