Cold Air Intake in the rain
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Staging Lane
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From: Jersey
Cold Air Intake in the rain I just have a CAI question: If daily driven rain or shine, will the engine be harmed if the intake gets wet? A buddy of mine was wondering, because his daily driver camaro has a K&N CAI. It looks as if going through a puddle would propel water up into the intake. I heard this is potentially harmful to the engine, but I would like some additional thoughts. Thank you.
i dumped several litres of water out of a buddies hydrolocked LT1 back in the day. said he drove through a "pretty deep puddle" around 3k rpms and had to get it towed home. it had a k&n cai with all the factory plastic around it and in place. i dumped the water out of the cylinders, squirted some tranny fluid in them, replaced plugs, changed the oil, and it ran fine afterwards.
my general plan if I come across a puddle I have to drive through is to go through it with enough speed to go through and turn my car off just before I hit the water, back on when I am clear for minimal water ingestion.
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jan 2011
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From: Palm Beach Florida
I live in Florida where it rains every day during the spring, and never have had an issue on any car
Drove my car through all sorts of nasty FL thunderstorms and never had a problem with my K&N CAI - it had the plastic cut out the bottom too. Never bothered the opti either for that matter...
You would have to drive through literally a foot of water for it to be an issue...and I have no plans to convert my camaro into a boat, so I make it a habit to not fjord any rivers with it.
You would have to drive through literally a foot of water for it to be an issue...and I have no plans to convert my camaro into a boat, so I make it a habit to not fjord any rivers with it.
