accord sucked in water
 

long story short, my CAI sucked in water from a puddle. i thought i could clear the puddle but i guess it was too deep. i dont need any smart ass comments. ok well it was turning off and right before it stopped completely i turned off the engine cuz i knew what was going on. ok so i got towed out. i took off my intake and there was a lot of water in the throttle body which i could see inside the intake manifold and that too was full of water. i took off the throttle body and the intake manifold. the manifold was completely full of water. i then removed the spark plugs and i proceeded in cranking my engine little by little. the first crank was funny cuz a bunch of water shot out really hard from the chambers and out of the spark plug holes and my friend got all wet. i emptied the chambers and i also drained my oil.
my next step is to put new spark plugs. new oil and oil filter. put back the intake manifold, throttle body, and intake.
now, my question is, should my car start? is this going to work and is this all i need to do? i also did this saturday and i will be putting everything back tomorrow, wednesday, so everything should be dry.

may i also add that i bought a new throttle body gasket and intake manifold gasket from honda. so thats covered.

what about dropping the oil pan? Water must of gotten into the crankshaft area.

you should have hand cranked the motor first so the water doens't shoot everywhere then spray some Wd40 or marval mystery oil into the cylinders to keep them from rusting ,and of course change the oil and trans oil if water got into there also and double check the ECU if water got to it then start the car after runing the engine change the oil again to get the rest of the water out .

call around to junkyards so you can buy a new engine :wavey:

sorry to hear and the same thing happen to my friends civic and the solution was a new engine. Good luck. but then again sometime it is hard to kill a honda engine with water.

the engines shot.

SRI > CAI :rick:

yes they are. better response and you arent getting that much colder air from a cai

not to mention this doesnt happen

its highly unlikely engine going to start now.... you can finally get the v6 you wished you had :oh: