Originally posted by MeiSoSlow
imagine a straw. You are inhaling air into it and when u stick it into a cup of soda, wut happens? YOu start sucking the soda through the straw right? Now cut a hole in the straw and try to suck up the soda through a straw. Nothing comes up but you seem to keep on sucking up more air, right? That is the idea of a bypass valve. It lets the intake take in air from mid pipe so you don't end up sucking water into the engine causeing hella damage. So if ur intake is completely submerged, the bypass valve opens so ur engine will be able to breath insted of drown.
but....when it does that...is it breathing "unfiltered" air?
And does this work for tiny droplets of water that would come out of a soaked filter? I remember my filter was completely soaked. So i guess it sucked so hard it sucked the water through the filter and up the intake pipe into the injector chamber.
Now...the bypass should cut off before it try's to suck up water through filter fibers(which is hard to do). I'm just saying that if u get a splash on your filter somehow, ur engine basically starts inhaling unfiltered air from your engine bay. Personally i dont like that.
I know its a better alternative to hydrolock, but is there a way you can "re-route" it to another filter somehow? Hmmm...something like this doesnt require that much thought.
I guess you should just drive slow through puddle or avoid them completely!
Dave