tnl_tsx

I want to get Injen CAI but im concern when it rains i have a chance of sucking in the water. I know i should slow down but i might not brake on time. So is there anything out there in the market to prevent it from happening?

Dan Martin

You won't hydrolock your engine by just driving in rain. You have to completely submerge the filter in water, meaning you'd have to drive through a 18" deep river before it would hydrolock.

tnl_tsx

ooohh ok i thought it'd get hydrolock a lot easier. Thanz Dan

TSX 3Pedal

Even if driving in super heavy rain with a whole bunch of water coming at your car from other cars?

TSXTuner

I lean toward the K&N, there are many comments about losing torque with Ingen, I think my K&N did not lose torque.

K&N comes with drycharger filter cover which helps keep out spray, saves
you $10 if you buy this seperately for the injen.

If plowing through water, it would dam up inside the inner
fender so much less than 15" of water is high risk. I wouldn't go
through more than 6-7" of standing water, and very slowly at that.

BlackAc036

Has anyone had any problem's with the CAI when driving in rain at all?

Dan Martin

When was the last time you saw a race car hydrolock during a race in the rain? Realtime even has their intake in the center of the bumper.

Water from rain will turn into a vapor when it's sucked into the engine. Water vapor is fine, complete injestion of water is bad. If you were running through the rain breathing through a straw, you'd be fine but if you stuck the end in a cup of water you'd have trouble.

05_TSX_GP

How come there are so many people worried about hydro-locking with CAI?!? It's been asked and answered many times... when will people search and read the results that come back?!?

GIBSON6594

Many of you may remember me as being a pussy about hydro-locking. I was asking all these questions about different situations and what I should do.

Well, yesterday I put my K&N into CAI mode and I couldn't be happier. These guys are right, just don't drive through a river and you'll be fine. First of all there is a splash guard under the car that keeps 95% percent of all water from splashin up from underneath the car. There are like 2 holes in that splash guard where water can come through, but it would have to be such a deep puddle for the water to get up there.

With the K&N (you can buy then for the injen too) you get a cover for the filter that repels any water that splashes onto the filter (and protects from dirt) so you would have to submerge the filter in a puddle while hitting the gas for water to get sucked in. That just doesn't happen.

Water doesn't easily splash up into that part of the car, but i'm not saying it can't happen. Just that it probably won't.

TSXTuner

My car is lowered and foglight covers are ported open.

At 8" water will flood through the foglight cover.
Depending on how fast the car is going and the flow rate of
water in the fog cover vs flow rate of water out of leaks in the inner
fender, it can dam up in there.

At 7" of water it would probably flood in there from the wake.

I wouldn't go through more than 6" of water at a crawl.

TSXsurf

Not to hijack the thread, but can you post a pic of your ported fog light? I'm thinking about doing the same thing.