BE CAREFUL DRIVING IN THIS SHIT (cold air intake)


2 Honda people i know within a week have choked out their cars in puddles

6/14/2006 11:49:02 AM

so true. good thing mine broke off and i put the stock one back on i love cruisin through big ass puddles and hydroplaning

6/14/2006 12:07:04 PM

I have a snorkel so I doubt I'll have any problems

6/14/2006 12:31:42 PM

how about you put your filter somewhere it wont suck in water

6/14/2006 12:49:44 PM

poorly designed CAI.. hmmm

6/14/2006 1:46:01 PM

i work in wilson. it's not lookin good outside. some local roads are already flooded. i got short ram so it should be ok

6/14/2006 2:48:14 PM

my intake is about headlight height - i don't get back to raleigh until the 22nd though - all will be well then

things like this make me consider a bypass valve

6/14/2006 2:51:01 PM

hah, a bypass valve wont do shit in this weather.

6/14/2006 3:02:12 PM

these ones were both right infront of the drivers side front tire down low

and i don't get that bypass valve junk... its basically a filtered hole in your intake that would suck in hot under hood temp air so if you're looking for cold air then whats the point?

6/14/2006 3:58:49 PM

The bypass valve isn't open all the time.

6/14/2006 4:13:49 PM

it has a rubber flaphole or something behind the filter material that stays closed until the main filter is closed off and drops the pressure enough

6/14/2006 4:13:53 PM

ohhh again these ones must have been poorly designed

(EBAY)

cause their flapper valves didn't exist

6/14/2006 4:15:58 PM

fwiw, bypasses dont agree well with forced induction.

6/14/2006 4:42:58 PM

6/14/2006 5:00:42 PM

what are u fucks talking about?

6/14/2006 5:02:24 PM

look at that cute little 1/4" thick rod

6/14/2006 5:34:36 PM

They aren't poorly designed. They're working exactly as intended.

6/14/2006 5:40:32 PM

warning, more flooded cars will be on the market tomorrow.

6/14/2006 10:34:29 PM

WRX on the side of 440 today.

6/14/2006 11:09:36 PM

i love driving puddles in my car
its high off the ground with performance intake but its not a CAI so im good

6/14/2006 11:46:46 PM

Quote :

"They aren't poorly designed. They're working exactly as intended."

exactly.


someone show me a well designed CAI

6/14/2006 11:50:51 PM

i survived. anyone with half a brain can do just fine on a rainy day with a cai

6/14/2006 11:54:03 PM

^ Exactly. My dad hydrolocked his engine on his Ford in WA state driving too fast through 10 inch deep water.

6/15/2006 6:55:50 AM

w00t for my SRI

thats why i picked it over a CAI

i like puddles.

6/15/2006 8:12:02 AM

yeah and i hope the wrx didn't have a cai or an sri either way they usually throw a code on a stock one and none of the cookie cutter maps work well cause they're a bitch to tune and they always affect the MAF reading differently.

6/15/2006 8:29:54 AM

^ true, very true

6/15/2006 9:04:48 AM

did that wrx have a black hood??

6/15/2006 10:18:22 AM

I didn't really catch the hood. It was blue with gold rims.

6/15/2006 11:55:30 AM

was it an STI??

6/15/2006 12:24:56 PM

dude I donno, I was blowing past it at 80mph in the left lane and it was on the right shoulder

it had a big ole wing on it I know that.

6/15/2006 12:40:13 PM

yeah, it was an STI.

it sucked in water.

hopefully insurance can handle it

6/15/2006 1:56:01 PM

wow it takes a good amount of water to hydrolock a car yea?

6/15/2006 3:34:18 PM

yeah these weren't locked but i bet they're not in good shape either

both of the blocks had been cooled below atmospheric temp in under a minute (probably mostly in the spash that it sucked in the water) and had water sitting on the pistons (i assume) they eventually cranked but i doubt they look pretty internally

6/15/2006 4:15:46 PM