Im from up north and we get quite a bit of rain i want the best intake i can get but im afraid that a cold air intake will suck water right into my engine. What kind should i get and should i just not get a cold air intake but a regular one?

 

correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't that the reason AEM makes the bypass valve for their CAI?

 

Get a CAI and ignore all you've read about the bypass valve or sucking water in.

They only way a CAI will suck in water, is if the filter is completly submerged in water. How often does that happen? If you get a CAI and a bypass valve... save your money and don't do anything. Installing a bypass valve will reduce power back to or less than stock.

Check out the past weather report for yesterday for scranton, pa 18505. We had about an inch and half of rain... I was just joy riding around all day yesterday and even splashing through puddles... I have a CAI with no bypass valve... cars fine. :thumbup: Go ahead and get a CAI and stay out of water more than a foot deep.

ps: this subject has been covered time and time again... might find some more opinions to back this up, just do a search.
https://www.honda-acura.net/forums/s...ight=cai+water
https://www.honda-acura.net/forums/s...ight=cai+water

 

I've had a K&N and a CAI since April of 2000. The filter gets very dirty from all the driving I do, but never does moisture get soaked through. You don't have to worry so long as your intake is not in direct line of sight for water to splash right on to it. It's very hard for water to travel up the hose, which is curved, from underneath the car. I have to clean my filter every couple of months. If you keep it clean and oiled you won't have any problems (remember oil and water don't mix).

 

this entire weekend mike and i were driving in the 4th gen through puddles.. there is a reason why there is a mud guard where the intake filter sits... not to mention you have to be riding through flood like conditions to have a worry... and i don't think you will ever have to drive through that stuff.. stay at home!

 

just don't drive through massive puddles and you should be fine. I've driven my lude with a cai through some pretty rough rain and everything has been find (knock on wood).

 

I've had an Iceman for 2 years now and when it rains down here (Texas) it usually pours. No By-pass, no problem. Stay out of the BIG puddles.

 

OK all the useless posts in this thread were removed, we can at least try to act like adults.

As for the intakes and hydrolocking the engine, it can and has happened. I myself wasted my motor at 11k with my 99 SH and an Iceman CAI. The water was deep but not nearly as bad as you guys think. The problem was the water was much deeper then it appeared and I went in behind a cargo van. The cargo van made a wake behind him that basically washed up into my front end.

Anyway long story short is IMHO the best thing to do with a CAI is either buy a Iceman or an AEM and cut it. I carry an extra air filter and screwdriver and if I need to or get worried I can switch the intake from long to short in under 5 minutes.

If I had a AEM I'd save the money from the bypass valve and buy another filter and a connector. You can just cut the intake in two and use it like the Iceman.

 

i don't mean to discredit you since you are a fellow mod but you just stated that "the water was much deeper than it appeared and I went behind a cargo van" and the van made a wake which WOULD put the water up high enough to engulf your filter....

i know it screwed up your car but that was just one case where "the water was much deeper than it appeared"

again... i hope i don't upet you but those were the facts... no hard feelings....

 

I agree it was deeper then I thought but my point was it could happen. Just because the puddle seems small doesnt mean it really is and that problem couldnt occur.