How deep of a puddle do you have to drive through to get hydrolocked?

[Chappy]

So yeah...as some of you know I am planning on dropping my car (about 1.7") and I got the AEM V2 CAI, and I was wondering about how deep of a puddle i would have to drive through to get hydrolocked with that...cause right now on stock suspension i got quite a bit of clearance right around where the CAI is located so I am not too worried, but if I drop it 1.7" I am just getting closer to the awful water...

I live in NC and we dont get all that much rain, but just with all the horror stories about engines getting hydrolocked I want to get an idea of the amount of rain I would need to drive through to get hydrolocked.

 

[Pugnap00]

haha man

NC

i went up there for outward bound.

in the appalatian mountains


and all it ever did there was rain

NC=rain imo lol

 

[Chappy]

haha man

NC

i went up there for outward bound.

in the appalatian mountains


and all it ever did there was rain

NC=rain imo lol

Haha. I know what you mean in the mountains it rains a lot, but where I am is usually in a drought.
Piedmont FTW!!
haha..but it seems like whenever we get rain we get a lot. I dont know its probably just me.

It rained a lot the other day, and was flipping out dodging huge puddles everywhere...but my car still runs haha

 

[dc2GS-R]

its not really the size of the puddle that matters. if your filter goes directly into any puddle, you can kiss it goodbye. I don't feel like explaining it in detail but Sport Compact Car Mag wrote about it. When they tested a bypass valve with the filter in a fish tank while dynoing an NSX :shock:

SCC:
Say you have a 2.0-liter engine, so each cylinder displaces 500cc. If just one of those cylinders sucked in just 100cc of water (100cc is only 5 percent of what's in a 2-liter bottle, if you are having problems thinking metrically) the end would be very, very near.If this engine has 10.0:1 compression, for example, the combustion chamber would be reduced to just 55.5cc when the piston is at top dead center. As the piston goes up the compression stroke with 100cc of water in the cylinder, impending doom is near. Air will happily compress as the piston moves up, but water will not. As soon as the combustion chamber is reduced to 100cc, the piston will stop. No matter what. And then the engine will stop... if you are lucky.

 

[Chappy]

its not really the size of the puddle that matters. if your filter goes directly into any puddle, you can kiss it goodbye. I don't feel like explaining it in detail but Sport Compact Car Mag wrote about it. When they tested a bypass valve with the filter in a fish tank while dynoing an NSX :shock:

SCC:
Say you have a 2.0-liter engine, so each cylinder displaces 500cc. If just one of those cylinders sucked in just 100cc of water (100cc is only 5 percent of what's in a 2-liter bottle, if you are having problems thinking metrically) the end would be very, very near.If this engine has 10.0:1 compression, for example, the combustion chamber would be reduced to just 55.5cc when the piston is at top dead center. As the piston goes up the compression stroke with 100cc of water in the cylinder, impending doom is near. Air will happily compress as the piston moves up, but water will not. As soon as the combustion chamber is reduced to 100cc, the piston will stop. No matter what. And then the engine will stop... if you are lucky.

Thanks
So you would pretty much have to get part of your filter submerged to become hydrolocked
so as long as I am careful I guess its not a big deal, right?

 

[dc2GS-R]

Thanks
So you would pretty much have to get part of your filter submerged to become hydrolocked
so as long as I am careful I guess its not a big deal, right?

No! I'm saying if you get about 40cc of water in one cyliner of the engine then something very bad will happen. The AEM bypass valve is proven to work as long as you aren't WOT through the rain. Just get a bypass valve and be careful. 40cc is only about 1 1/3 fl. oz. so it doesn't take alot

 

[MoJoJoJo]

wait is the v2 a cai or a sr on the integra? on the rsx its a sr, it has to be over the wheel for it to get flooded on my car...wats is the v2 on ur car?

 

[dc2GS-R]

Its a CAI on almost everything. Guess I've never seen it on a RSX. I figured they were all CAI

 

[1329itr00]

yea my friend has it on his ep3 and it is like a sri, but on ours its a cai

 

[Chappy]

No! I'm saying if you get about 40cc of water in one cyliner of the engine then something very bad will happen. The AEM bypass valve is proven to work as long as you aren't WOT through the rain. Just get a bypass valve and be careful. 40cc is only about 1 1/3 fl. oz. so it doesn't take alot

Yeah...its a CAI on the teg. Also I dont think that AEM sells a bypass valve for the V2.
But yeah i will be careful.

 

[dc2GS-R]

They sell the valves in 4 different sizes so you can always cut you intake and put one on for extra insurance. But as long as your careful you will be OK

 

[nexgenintegra]

just be careful i have a cold air intake now and im worried when i drive in the rain, so im actually going to take a pipe section out and just use it a sri

 

[speedin]

Haha. I know what you mean in the mountains it rains a lot, but where I am is usually in a drought.
Piedmont FTW!!
haha..but it seems like whenever we get rain we get a lot. I dont know its probably just me.

It rained a lot the other day, and was flipping out dodging huge puddles everywhere...but my car still runs haha

haha, yea im in charlotte. its been crazy rain. when i had the teg i went the ice box route to avoid hydrolocking all together. now i have a turbo so the intake stays nice and dry in the engine compartment :twisted: . while i get soaked due to a convertable leak (figureing out how to take the top fabric off so i can fix it)

 

[ltrain]

common sence bro... when a puddle will submerge your filter, depends on the drop of the car and the car and filter location numnutz

 

[K. Legaspi]

get the sri then.. lol