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#1
02-24-2004, 10:18 AM
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Moisture Sucked Into My Injen RD CAI
I have an Injen RD Cold Air intake and my car is a 2000 Eclipse GS.
I live in California and like 2 days ago it was raining really hard. Also I had to go to work and took the freeway. I was going about 80-85 MPH on the fast lane when I saw a puddle of water about 2" thick. It was too late for me to slow down or steer clear of the puddle and I blitzed right through the puddle ramming it hard.  I thought "F*ck! My Injen CAI probably sucked in water!" And it did...  It was fine and ran fine all the way to work but on the way back it began to chug and choke.  I would accelerate from 0 and it would chug and choke. The RPM's would go from 3,000 RPM to like 2,000 RPM's at random every 1 second or so. My instrument cluster says "Service Engine Soon" and is always on.  Day 3 and it is still having that problem. On the highways it feels like it wants to shutdown on me. It still runs but wants to shut off every now and then. I thought it would go away after a couple of days if the water would evaporate.  Anyway I still have a warranty on the car but I would need to take the Injen CAI and put the stock back in along with all my other mods. It would be a real pain in the ass. Would this be enough for me to brag to my dealership to force them to give me a new engine? Also I really dont have alot of time to take all the stuff out wait like a day and put the stuff back in. So I was wondering also if there was like another way of fixing the problem by getting rid of the water, taking it to some kind of shop or wait for the water to evaporate/go away? A new engine sounds sweet though.  What do you guys recommend? Have any of you had the same problem? 
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#2
02-24-2004, 05:25 PM
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This summer we had a lot of rain and a girl that works with me drove through the 2ft of water blocking the entrance to our course. This did the same thing that you are dealing with. I took it back to my shop and changed the oil and it fired right up with no problem. It could be that simple.
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#3
02-25-2004, 08:50 AM
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Re: Moisture Sucked Into My Injen RD CAI
You're not gonna get a new engine most likey. Put your old airbox back on and take it to the dealer and tell them you have no idea what happened. They will fix whatever it is under warranty, if there is anything to fix at all.
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#4
02-25-2004, 05:05 PM
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The strange thing is that once I put the stock intake back it ran fine without choking itself. I did however take it to the dealer and all they did was change the spark plugs.
I'm going to wait at least a week until rain season ends so that I can put my intake back in.
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#5
02-29-2004, 10:48 AM
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Ok I waited about a week and put the Injen back in. At first it seemed fine but then I drove it and it chugged. It did not shut down on me but it chugged.
So from this observation I can conclude that: 1)Sparkplugs are working 2)Something other than Sparkplugs is causing a problem So I think this monday I will buy 3 quarts of oil and do a complete oil change so that way any junk or impurities that is in my engine will get flushed out. I've also put an order for NGK Iridium IX Spark Plugs (Qty. 4) and Magnecor KV85 Ignition Wires (Qty. 4) to upgrade the ignition. If I continue to have the same problem I dont know what else will work. But this should work and correct my problem. Also a word of advice, STAY AWAY FROM THE DEALER. I should have told them off cause they charged me $50 bucks for stock spark plugs.
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