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CAI in the rain SUX!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:02 pm
by mars
well yesterday i was heading home from work during the rain, i decided to check out my filter... got home and check it out and DAMN it's freakin soaked!!!!! water was just drippin from the filter... i'm suprised the car was still running the way it was.... i luv the better pick up from the CAI, but man i do not feel safe running the car wit the CAI during raining and winter season.... now i need to get back to the SRI....
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:27 pm
by Pappy
No just buy and install this in place of one of your rubber couplers on your intake. No worries then
http://www.2kracing.com/product_info.ph ... 3bc7be59a8
You can buy these anywhere!
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:39 pm
by Y2k
cant u build some kind of splash shield to wrap around it?
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:56 pm
by focinite
it was just spash from the road. by the time the air gits to yer maf its hot enough to dry it out. i checked with my scann tool even wit the cai your intake temps after warmup should be around 80-120 degrees. but a bypass on a svt may not be a good idear ive head that the flaps cant handle the suck from the svt motor, granted vacume is vacume, but if you were to try to choke of the motor by hand over throttle methode the svt sucks a hell of alot harder(keep yer mind out the gutter!!!) than the zx3 ztec. it will colaps the bypass flappers anf suck through the bypass ( air right off the header,and motor= hot) your better off fabing a plate or sheild to dirrect and protect.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:42 pm
by o2designs
This is the exact reason I don't trust these lower piped filters. I'm sure alot of people go without any problem, but I'd be teh one that gets fucked...
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:52 am
by sc0tty8
Thats why I never used those pieces of shit. Over priced "convert your motor into a water pump" hax.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:50 pm
by Steve@Tasca
This is why my filter is up behind my headlight instead of down behind the bumper.
I don'r think you need to worry about it unless you submerge it though.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:38 pm
by Pitch Black
if you want to go to SRI i have a steeda SRI for sale
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:41 am
by mars
i'll see what i can come up wit... maybe i'll go back to my oldset for the rain/winter or something..... ummm steeda SRI?
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:43 pm
by Sucka612
Same reason I got an SRI
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:38 pm
by focinite
sally!!!!!!!! make a sheild. a tube dose not add power!!!!!!!! and no reasone to spend 200 bucks on a couple sections of alum. tube that cost 2.00 a foot.
a well placed sheet of alum. and some pop rivits and 3m tape trust me no one will see it and it will help force air up in the tube and keep rain out.....now 3 feet of standing water, yer on yer own.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:50 am
by mars
i'll figure something out... neither a ghetto shield or back to the oldsetup....
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:29 am
by focinite
i have a few ideas up my sleev , if you want one of them let me know.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:36 pm
by Y2k
get a shield and you should be fine.