Agape422

Ok i know this has been discussed in various places but i just want your opinions. I would love to get a CAI but am paranoid of hydrolock. I hear it's rare but can happen. Anyone ever have this experience? Ok now vs. the CAI how much difference is there? How much HP does a CAI give you in a 06 Civic LX? How about the SRI? Anyone done dyno with these? Would there even be a point to putting a SRI on? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

God bless,
Scott

05blkrs

i always run sri's .. mostly because i can make them.. it's a lot harder to fab up a cai... as far as hydrolock, you have to REALLY MESS UP to hydrolock a motor... as in you have to almost completely submerge the air filter... dyno numbers will not be acurate for comparing the 2... anyway.. i'd just get whatever you want.. you may get a little more power out of a cai but mainly if you live in a hot climate.. in cold weather, they'rll be about the same.

Agape422

hey thanks for the input. I live in brownsville, tx...right next to mexico so it's hot here 10 out of 12 months so maybe cai is a better way to go. so you would have to drive through a huge puddle to hydro lock huh? I guess people make it out to sound like just driving on wet roads can cause it. I am not going to lower my car so maybe it's not as big of a problem then? Keep the feedback coming. Thanks so much!

blue00si

sri intakes are suppose to give you a little mre tq and usually sound a LITTLE throatier....besides that i like cai personally plus i still say you have to be a moron to hydro lock a motor....rule of thumb if water is anymore than 1' deep DONT BE DRIVING IN IT UNLESS YOU GOT A RIDE THATS A COUPLE FEET OFF THE GROUND!!

Agape422

so if my car isn't lowered and i drive through reasonably wet road conditions...(i would never drive through a flooded street anyway) i shouldn't have a problem even with the cai? Does anyone know how far off the ground their cai is?

05blkrs

in brownsville, you're ok.. i have a friend just north of dallas that has a civic that's about half an inch off the ground, has all the plastic underneath taken out.. and has a HUGE cai.. and he has never had problems... i did however have one friend who hydrolocked his motor on a ep3 civic... btu he went into a puddle that was up to his lug nuts... he couldnt' see at night..

Agape422

anybody know what you have to do if you ever DO hydrolock?

BTW 05 I like the Initial D sig ya got going there.

05blkrs

buy a new motor

Agape422

bummer. Ok now i'm truely torn lol. Doesn't seem worth the risk.

05blkrs

well like i've said, i've always run sri's and i live in tx too... actually my current car, i just unbolted the air box from the mass air sensor and put an adapter plate w. a cone filter on it... so it's not even an sri.. and it sounds good and makes a power difference i can tell

Agape422

how about with a bypass valve? Are you pretty safe then? It just gets so hot here and under the hood on a 90+ degree day...360 days out of the year lol...i read that the SRI might even decrease power.

blue00si

typically once you realize you have water in your motor which wont take long..if you STOP driving it immediately you can usely slavage the motor there are methods of removing water w/o tearing the whole motor apart....i had a friend who actually just had this problem...they removed the water and put on a timing belt...he needed one anyways and ran fine

blue00si

yea a bypass valve will help but isnt a 100% guarantee...just use your noggin....but no a SRI should NEVER reduce hp/tq unless the original system was really effecient...which isnt the case with your typical car