moike

i tried to play around with turning the piping to make it aim more parralel to the ground but it would have required more cutting of the plastic around the pipe and i just decided to work with it as is.

i would be curious to find out who else has their filter aimed upwards though.

spapdx

I was under the impression that hydrolock was only an issue if the filter was completely submerged into water... true or false?

xviper

FALSE!
That is only one way. The most common way reported is from an S2000 with this type of intake being PARKED under a heavy rain for a period of time. While parked, the rain falls down onto the top of the filter and collects in that first elbow because the pipe is angled up. Ultimate Lurker posted a long time ago that he thinks that as little as about 100 cc of water sitting in there is enough to hydrolock an engine. As soon as the engine is fired up with that kind of water in there, it is easily sucked up because of the "high cold idle" feature on this car.
"Driving" through a heavy rain is no problem as a moving vehicle reduces the amount of water that falls onto the filter (unless you have a huge gap between your front bumper and the bottom edge of your right headlight). Even sitting still with the engine running (and in a heavy rain and NOT plugging the drain hole in the hood edge) is OK as the running engine can take care of the water as it comes in and won't allow it to accumulate.

Wisconsin S2k

I'll have to take a pic of my filter next time I clean it. Seriously my filter is completely parallel to the ground which I'm thinking is why I never had this issue, considering I even don't have my drain hole plugged.

rajun asian

Thanks for the post with the experimental photos. I made mine out of an empty washer fluid jug. Now I know it's doing its job. Great write up!

CypherAZ

The CAI on my RSX was just as low to the ground as the CAI on my s2k. I drove my RSX in the rain plenty of times with no problem. I don't understand, is there a problem on teh s2k I don't understand? One that makes it easier to hydrolock?

JawKnee

Perhaps you should read xviper's post?

xviper

Too easy!

I think reading and paying attention is a lost art.

mav

Well I'm sick of this AEM intake, I'm changing mine for some JDM goodness soon. No more hydrolock worries.

Nhan

yeah but those JDM intakes wont growl like the aem does