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to all you people with hydrolocked engines, what brand intake did you have, and is it cai or sri intake that caused it???

 
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It's a CAI that will allow the possibility of hydrolocking the engine. It doesn't matter what brand of CAI........any CAI allows for the possibility of hydrolocking.

 
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wanna bet? A SRI can hydrolock an engine...but then that would be the least of your worries...

 
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Mine was a Injen CAI.

 
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If you wanna go by that the stock can hydrolock an engine also......lol

 
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you will be fine if you dont drive through huge puddles, if your still worried the get a bypass valve, or jus get a sri

 
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hey ike, i read your post on when your car hydrolocked. well, i don't want to risk getting the injen cold air intake for sure, since chicago rains like crazy. what about aem cai? and or rd intake or k&n fipk2? any suggestions?

 
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hydrolocking the engine requires the intake filter to be completely submerged in water. if you do something like that, you deserve it anyway.

 
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you can get the INJEN just rig the AEM bypass valve on the piping and youll be fine other wise if you so worried about it get a SRI

 
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wrong.......the filter does not need to be all the way submerged for it to suck up water. I can still suck the water if even it is only halfway submerged.

For the bypass to work the filter needs to be all the way submerged.

 
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i'm just going with the rd intake or k&n fipk2, but most likely, rd, because it looks better, since performance wise, they are all the same

 
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Just do yourself a favor and get a short ram. It will save you from all worries.

 
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one of the big reasons I went with the FIPK

 
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So would it be a good idea to convert my Injen RD CAI to a SRI during the rainy season, and then back to CAI after hurricane season ends?!

 
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i don't know why people are so scared of hydro locking...the only posibility of doing that is if your whole freaking bumper is submerged into water....if the whole filter isn't submerged it won't suck up water. Plain and simple...i've had a aem cai through the winter and had no problems...

 
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Yeah, you might want to consider that.


Oh, and norcalsi, it wasnt even halfway up my bumper when it happened to me.

 
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first time posting, so sorry if I screw it up. I was wondering if I get an aftermarket fromt bumper that exposes the injen cai filter to wind and potentially rain, how likely am I to hydrolock my engine? Also is it possible to activate an AEM bypass valve manually? I'm not sure how the bypass valve works, so if someone could explain that'd be great. Thanks.

 
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use a stock intake.

 
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LOL, your Filter on the end of a CAI can and will get wet.......as long it isn't actually sitting in a puddle of water it will be fine.

The AEM Bypass valve doesn't work like that. It works on air pressure. When the filter gets submerged in the water, air pressure drops and water begins to be sucked up the CAI. When this happens the Valve is opened by the pressure and releases the water before it reaches the throttle body.

 
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thank goodness i havent had to deal with hydrolock headaches i live in the desert just have to wash filter every month and recharge

 
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You recharge the filter every month!!! geez........I only do it twice a year and I still think that's too often.

 
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I just received my AEM CAI V2 lately and its kinda NOT a CAI...

the filter comes to somewhere close to the battery and not underneath the car, like the CAI v1

sound is sweet and i can see a little performance gain. and i've put my worries asside since the filter is way up (a little like where the stock air intake was)

one problem is, at the ignition, there's something that seems to be knocking somewhere. and its not the pipe knowcking under the hood cuz i tried once with the hood opened.

if any of you have this intake installed successfully without this little knocking noise at the ignition, pls msg me at tran_kien@hotmail.com

thx

 
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yeah have to clean and charge it, it sucks too much dirt i hate the desert, but te pay is too good to leave

 
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just have your stock ones on if you guys biatch that much. then when it stops raining just put your intake on. or you can move to sunny LA where it rains 3 days out of the year.