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Originally Posted by rmckim
How did the lack of a bypass valve affect your engine? Water get into it... or something else?
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air filter got totally immersed in a puddle at high RPM's therefore filling the cylinders with water. Water doesnt compress like air and fuel does - its already compressed as far as it will go... so naturally my engine is a twisted mess inside including half of a connecting rod being shot through the block.
The bypass valve just senses the vacuum pressure of water coming up the intake and a valve opens letting air in the engine from right before the throttle body instead of from where the water is being sucked up so the water just falls back out.