I just put in an injen CAI ....but have read alots of reviews on the hydrolock problems,just want to see if anyone will have any ways of preventing it. thanx

 

The only way you would hydrolock your engine is if you have a CAI and drive through a flood and suck a crap load of water into your engine.. Hydrolocking is not something that is a common problem....

 

Its an old wife's tale/urban legend. I've forded creeks with mine! Just use a little common sense, like stay out of water thats over your bumper or coming in your doors.

 

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Its an old wife's tale/urban legend. I've forded creeks with mine! Just use a little common sense, like stay out of water thats over your bumper or coming in your doors.



I understand what you trying to say, i know thats common sense! duh! but just trying to find out if there is any other ways of avoiding it!...if you think my concern is stupid... then don't reply it!

 

Its not stupid I wondered the same exact thing when I first installed the Injen CAI a few years back on my Celica.. But like I said above as long as you dont drive through water that is as high as the filter cone you'll be fine..

Use precaucion if you think the water is too high too drive through for fear it will F** up your interior than dont drive through it.. Thats the best advise anyone could give you...

 

thank you "da mac" ....

 

No problem...

 

Aw dude, I don't think your concern is stupid. It is, or should be, a normal concern for anyone modifying their intake so drastically. But, once you really analyze it, I think you'll see that the fear is really unfounded except in the most extreme circumstances.

 

1- I hydrolocked my Jetta VR6. Therefore, it can and does happen. The water was only about 5 inches deep at maximum in a gutter that I drove through. Perhaps it was the angle of the dangle, so to speak.

2- CAI's in the tC are quite different, I'm observing. The location of the filter element is very high up for a cold air intake (about the top of the lugnuts). Therefore, it's reasonable to say that this is one of the safest CAI cars out there.

---Compare to about 4 inches off the ground for my hydrolocked car.

Basically, the tC is an exception to the hydrolock problem. Hydrolock is a real problem, just not for tC's.

 

great observation...coudn't have been better said....

 

It has happened to one that I have heard of on here. But the guys brother drove it basically through a flash flood on a street, so the water was VERY deep. So if you use common sense you should be fine. Some will try to tell you that a little water splashed on the filter will do it, which is 100% bs. First, until you really submerge a decent amount of the filter there is not enough suction to even pull the water into the engine (or open an AEM bypass valve).

Just be careful. You can hyrdolock any car if you try hard enough :D

 

man if you need to go through something so deep....just haul ___ and hydroplane across it.....

 

I tried that once over a 1 foot deep puddle in an old cavalier. we found the huge puddle in a huge dirt parking lot. It was funny as hell, but about gave us all whiplash :D Its fun to be 16 and have friends with old beaters to tear up

 

amen brotha...except i still do it with my friends old beater pickup truck

 

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other than the advice given above, all i can say is if your really concerned by a: AEM BYPASS VALVE...

not sure if they really work, but im pretty sure they do, and they dont look to bad ;)

o ya, i hope this isnt your beater..so do not take honey buckets advice

 

whoa now..i have nothing but positive legal advice for anyone and everyone on this site....and i--

couldnt say that with a straight face.

 

If you're worried, you can have a bypass valve installed.

 

buy bigger rims...20s?

 

I've been wondering the same things about CAI's and hydrolocking. living in Florida, we get a lot of heavy rain and we have many crappy roads, so the drainage is basically not there. I'm planning on taking out my drivers side front vent, replacing it with mesh (the real stuff, stainless steel like on the RS 2.0 and putting a pretty dense screen behind that to catch bugs and debris) and bending sheet metal to "guide" air to the CAI. Hydrolock was a huge worry for me with this setup too and still continues to be sice I'm basically inviting water in. Does anyone know if the AEM bypass works? I konw they say it does, but just looking for anyone with experience with it.