near death/hydrolock experience!!!! (cai)
not shitting you, when i saw the title of this thread, i automatically knew the OP lived in SoCal because apparently everyone there has no clue how to do anything when its raining
glad your car turned out ok.
seriously though, wtf is up with 350z owners and hydrolocking? no offense but i'm starting to think that we're becoming morons. even all the ricer civics with cai dont have this many problems.
seriously though, wtf is up with 350z owners and hydrolocking? no offense but i'm starting to think that we're becoming morons. even all the ricer civics with cai dont have this many problems.
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Whats with everyone scared of cai's? If you guys read he SUBMERGED his intake therefore caused the water to go in. Bits and pieces of water will not cause hydrolock. My friend drives around a fully exposed cai filter consistantly during rain and this never happened. You just got to think of the cai as the sucking thing at the dentist. You only have the tube fully sucking up water when it is fully submerged.
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I currently live in Houston and I've had my Injen CAI for almost 20 months and have had no issues. Anyone living in H-Town knows that we get torrential downpours here too.
BTW Flee, Injen doesn't make a bypass valve for their CAI. Injen instead has a "Hydroshield" which is basically a breathable condom for their filters.
BTW Flee, Injen doesn't make a bypass valve for their CAI. Injen instead has a "Hydroshield" which is basically a breathable condom for their filters.
Last edited by pangoman; Feb 8, 2010 at 06:47 AM.
JWT shortram FTMFW, and i'd bet the motor is trash. Water in the oil, cylinder etc etc, give it a month it will let go. The damage has been done.
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i have the same intake right now, i got super scared how it sits during winter,because its in the grille wide open.
and i got this splash shield form injen that works really well =] looks like my car has a buck tooth.
and i got this splash shield form injen that works really well =] looks like my car has a buck tooth.
There was a youtube video of a waterlogged 350 uploaded not too long ago and water was spitting out of every orifice when they tried cranking it.. Didn't look promising at all!
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video link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJ9alWnLAc
edit:
video link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJ9alWnLAc
Last edited by Highway Riding; Feb 8, 2010 at 10:32 AM.
I currently live in Houston and I've had my Injen CAI for almost 20 months and have had no issues. Anyone living in H-Town knows that we get torrential downpours here too.
BTW Flee, Injen doesn't make a bypass valve for their CAI. Injen instead has a "Hydroshield" which is basically a breathable condom for their filters.
BTW Flee, Injen doesn't make a bypass valve for their CAI. Injen instead has a "Hydroshield" which is basically a breathable condom for their filters.
only moral you should go by: pay attention to where you are driving.
It's dark and the OP made a mistake so that's understandable. The rest of the goobers i hear with this problem just drive through water like they are in a mud bog. wtf
I could tell you every location in my immediate surroundings that floods. I make sure i know because i don't like to drive in flooded areas (even not having a cai).
It's dark and the OP made a mistake so that's understandable. The rest of the goobers i hear with this problem just drive through water like they are in a mud bog. wtf
I could tell you every location in my immediate surroundings that floods. I make sure i know because i don't like to drive in flooded areas (even not having a cai).
i agree. driving at 6 in the morning cant be used as an excuse, but i did make a mistake. luckily i tried stopping immediately so that minimized the amount of water it sucked in.
most actual hydrolock cases i've read about is caused by the speed the car is going that causes valves/rods bending or people cranking the car for 20 times straight after it dies.
thanks for the support guys. i've been driving it for 2 days and no issues yet. hopefully nothing else happens. i scheduled another oil change this coming weekend just to make sure water was completely drained out.
i'll keep updating
most actual hydrolock cases i've read about is caused by the speed the car is going that causes valves/rods bending or people cranking the car for 20 times straight after it dies.
thanks for the support guys. i've been driving it for 2 days and no issues yet. hopefully nothing else happens. i scheduled another oil change this coming weekend just to make sure water was completely drained out.
i'll keep updating
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only moral you should go by: Pay attention to where you are driving.
It's dark and the op made a mistake so that's understandable. The rest of the goobers i hear with this problem just drive through water like they are in a mud bog. Wtf
i could tell you every location in my immediate surroundings that floods. I make sure i know because i don't like to drive in flooded areas (even not having a cai).
It's dark and the op made a mistake so that's understandable. The rest of the goobers i hear with this problem just drive through water like they are in a mud bog. Wtf
i could tell you every location in my immediate surroundings that floods. I make sure i know because i don't like to drive in flooded areas (even not having a cai).
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To those calling Californian's morons for "not knowing how to deal with rain", please enlighten us? You must think we're purposely driving into these f--king puddles? lol... gimme a break.
The So-Cal rain this year kicked my *** a couple of weeks ago when my AEM CAI sucked up water and killed my engine for a couple of days, but it's been fine since. There's really no "knowing how to deal" with rain other than taking precautionary steps like having good tires, installing bypass valves on CAI's or removing CAI's altogether, and of course driving safely for the conditions. If you hit a puddle, you hit a puddle, wtf are you going to do? Sometimes you see them too late and can't avoid them. Some puddles look completely innocent shallow little things and they end up being really deep when you actually hit them. What about situations when you can't go around a puddle or all of the above? lol
There's nothing like a semi-truck driving next to you on a freeway blowing water directly at your windshield like a fire hose and taking away all visibility. Add blistering rain and make the car a low profile 350z that has a very difficult time in wet conditions, and yet somehow it's never a problem for us "dumb" Californians.
The So-Cal rain this year kicked my *** a couple of weeks ago when my AEM CAI sucked up water and killed my engine for a couple of days, but it's been fine since. There's really no "knowing how to deal" with rain other than taking precautionary steps like having good tires, installing bypass valves on CAI's or removing CAI's altogether, and of course driving safely for the conditions. If you hit a puddle, you hit a puddle, wtf are you going to do? Sometimes you see them too late and can't avoid them. Some puddles look completely innocent shallow little things and they end up being really deep when you actually hit them. What about situations when you can't go around a puddle or all of the above? lol
There's nothing like a semi-truck driving next to you on a freeway blowing water directly at your windshield like a fire hose and taking away all visibility. Add blistering rain and make the car a low profile 350z that has a very difficult time in wet conditions, and yet somehow it's never a problem for us "dumb" Californians.
