Ok so my car is an Acura integra and i just recently put a AEM v2 intake on and the CAI is low to the ground. Anyways it has been rainging out and i have a feeling some water has gotten in my car. But it hasnt affcted anything or at least not yet. Is there anything i can do to prevent hydrolock. I heard buting a K&N air filter would help does anyone know if you could tell me that would be great

takes alot of water to hydro lock. i drove my old aem cai in rain, snow, and sun with never hydro locking. you should really be scared of those deep puddles ;) what can you do?........................get a bypass valve which basically makes it pointless to go cai, or get rid of the cai ;)

How does a by-pass valve make it useless to have a cai? :screwy:

Probably because it's like you're cutting an intake pipe in half and connecting it together with something made out of thick foam. So you're not getting the direct flow that you could with just the straight cai. Just look at the bypass and you'll see.

But water with a CAI can definently be a problem. A few years ago my friend was driving on the highway when it was raining, and he had to pull over and shut off the car because it was sputtering from water going up the pipe. You can also shut off the engine when you're going to go thru a big puddle (though not the smartest idea).

How does a by-pass valve make it useless to have a cai? :screwy:

you can either search or think about it ;)

:( no bypass valves for AEM V2 unless custom made. and using a bypass valve does not make a CAI useless...it reduces the power produced by the CAI but its not just foam it uses some sort of a vacuum. check out AEMpower.com they got all the info on that stuff on the site

if you want some unbiased results? then dont search aem's site for their results on their own product ;)

if the bypass valve only makes you lose a little bit of power, then, how much power does the cai give you to begin with ;) not much different from a SRI is it ;)

cut a piece of pipe in half and stick a filter on one end and a piece of foam in the cutted part. when it starts sucking, where does the air (or water if you wanna use a straw submerged in a cup of water) get sucked from? try that experiment and come back and report your results ;)

ask yourself, what is the purpose of the cai? then ask yourself..................does the bypass valve eliminate the cai from performing what it was intended to do ;)

94-01 Non-Vtec
peak with AEM V2: 127.7HP
peak stock baseline: 123.5HP
peak gain: 9.1HP @ 4250RPM
peak with AEM V2: 117.4 ft-lbs
peak stock baseline: 111.5 ft-lbs
peak gain: 11.3 ft-lbs @ 4250RPM

94-01 Non-Vtec
peak with AEM CAS: 127.4HP
peak stock baseline: 123.5HP
peak gain: 10.1HP @ 4250RPM
peak with AEM CAS: 116.2 ft-lbs
peak stock baseline: 111.5 ft-lbs
peak gain: 12.5 ft-lbs @ 4250RPM

i dont know the numbers for a short ram cause they dont have dyno charts posted for it

they also have an article on their site by Sport Compact Car which explains much more about an air bypass valve then what im posting (http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/tech/0104scc_tested/index.html) "Surprisingly simple in construction, but quite sophisticated in design, the AEM air-bypass valve sits upstream of the air filter and normally does nothing. If the filter gets submerged in water, however, there will be a slight vacuum in the pipe as the engine tries to suck the water up the pipe. This slight vacuum opens up 12 rubber flaps in the air-bypass valve, allowing the engine to breathe air through the bypass valve's small foam filter. When the water level drops, the vacuum goes away and the main filter supplies air again. No panic, no blown engine. How nice."

except, for the bypass valve to actually work, the filter basically has to be submerged in water. now, you can get enough water into your motor to hydrolock it w/ out submerging your filter...

wow, great investment...

the safest thing you can do is simply use the CAI in the summer months (dry season) and then either put your stock air box back on, or purchase a SRI for the winter months (rain season.)

those 3-5 hp freed up by the CAI aren't really going to matter all that much during the raining season anyways (not going to matter much in a race to begin w/, but why even race in the rain?) so why risk it?

Ive rad an aem cai installed on my gsr for 4 years now, never had a problem. Just use your common sense and dont go through large puddles!

will the AEM CAS sit as low to the ground as the V2 or will it stay up in the engine like a SRS

The filter on the CAI is in the same spot on the V2 so they'd be the same

just let off the damn gass when u go through a puddle.