Don't take anything apart. If you don't know what you're looking for, you may do more damage taking the stuff apart. You probably just got a little bit of water in the intake and it worked its way through. Your car is fine. You didn't actually "hydrolock" your car. You basically just ingested some water. If you are swimming in a pool and you ingest a bit of water and cough and hack for a bit, you don't go to the hospital to replace your lungs.

Water in that amount will not hurt an engine. In fact, in the late fifties and early sixtys people used to use water injection for more power in their cars. NOS eventually replaced it. Both work on roughly the same principal, but NOS is more effective.

What hydrolocking actually means is that the intake sucked a significant amount of water into the car and the engine came to an abrupt stop. Most fluids don't compress, so the piston just stops. If you had hydrolock and you damaged something, it would be the connecting rods and you would know if you damaged them. Just run the car like normal and pick up a bypass valve if you are really worried.

As for all the white smoke after startup, thats from the left over water in the air cleaner on the end of your tube. If you want to change something, I would take your filter off and clean it and recharge it. That's probably more contaminated than anything. Good luck.

Tom

 

I hydrolocked my D15B7 and put 2 holes in the block... consider yourself lucky.

 

Way to steamclean your combustion chambers, Willard

 

i say change the oil and spark plugs. when you change the oil, leave the drain plug off and pour in a quart of new oil just to clean out the water and what not in the engine. den change the oil as normal. you should be straight, my friend drove through water with half his car covered and it sputtered for like a minute, but ran fine, nothing wrong with the car.

 

yea, when i thought about it, i got lucky.

well looks like everythings fine now. just want to change the oil now.