i have a cold air intake on my car right now.. and I was thinking about moving down to the beach area in a few months to start up college again... From my understanding areas like the beach are always raining alot and flooding. I had friends and family members who have hydrolocked cars before in this area...

Should I be ok with leaving my cold air intake on?? has anyone hydrolocked their fit with a cold air intake yet?

 

I think that's your answer right there.

 

i also forgot to include that they all drove Saturns.. a friend from college.. and a cousin.. they are both girls.. i don't mean to sound sexist.. but perhaps they don't pay attention when they drive?

the location that i will be moving to is literally less then a mile away from a beach.. its a school basically on the Beach...


it kinda sucks to throw on the stock intake on there. iam not even sure which way the stock filter was originally flipped.. i might have to buy a new filter.

 

Well, I don't have a CAI, never have used a CAI before (won't say I never will, but I probably won't), so I can't tell much more than that.

I think the stock filter only really goes in one way (down into the bottom half of the box).

 

Unless the CAI plumbing extends the intake to a different area, I don't think it would be any more prone to hydro-lock than stock.

Here's a stock fit that bought it in New Orleans.

Don't drive through standing water.

 

The one downside to living at the beach is the corrosive salt air. I lived at the beach in L.A. when I owned my '90 CRX si at it destroyed the electrical system. Cost me around 2K to get it all replaced.

 

Life is beach eh?

I am going out to play in the sand and salt slush on our streets later.

 

I got my GE Fit when it was less than a year old with only 4K on the tach. When I checked it out, it had lots of white power everywhere in and around the engine and compartment. It was easy to clean off most of it. When I researched where the car originally came from, it turned out to be along the seashore in Maryland. That salt air gets into everything.

 

i wouldn't worry about driving with a CAI. you know exactly how low your filter is if you installed it yourself.

 

I saw that episode... that's just sooooo wrong. HAHA.

 

I live across the street from the beach and my road floods a lot. I would just be very careful when going through puddles as you really don't know how deep they are. Try to size them up by comparing them to how high the curb is and the level of the water. I'm sure the friends you had who've had this problem drove fast through the puddle/flood.

 

yeah see!!! iam going to be like SUPER close to the beach like that.... and everyone has been warning me about those kind of puddles are everywhere, and it floods all the time.... yeah i think i'll enjoy this CAI for several more months, and in May, I'll swap back to my stock intake before i move down there for the summer and for the school year.

i firgured it out.. yeah i was putting back together the stock intake today and noticed it had that little clip on the filter so its impossible to put it in backwards, i got it dirty from throwing it around.. but i guess that doesn't matter too much that theres greese on the opposite side of it.

after examining the stock intake... what the heck is that compartment for?? like that little box compartment that doesn't connect to the intake AT ALL, and it even has screws there for it.. is that just for sound? thats kind of a waste of space IMO.

 

Purchase an AEM bypass valve and call it a day. Just be smart and you should be ok!
AEM Air Bypass Valve for Cold Air Intakes - Prevents Hydro-lock

Good luck and enjoy the beach!