beef240

my engine just blew. i went over this long puddle not deep just long and sucked water into the intake. any ideas on where to relocate the air breather or box. that is just crappy, y did they put the intake straight under the car. didn't dog it or race it and now i got to replace the engine. bent valves and everything didn't even get water in the head or piston chambers yet the engine is dust.

TypeX180

sorry to hear that man

Bryan

The box isn't really that low...I don't understand how it could suck water unless it was a deep *** puddle.

beef240

see the air box has this tube that goes through a hole in the frame down right behind the bumper

Bryan

Yeah, but it goes into a box, not just down into nothing. I dunno, I still don't see how it could have sucked water up unless it was deep.

jramosthe1st!

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i don't see how enough water got in your engine to cause that damage. for bout a year i ran some piping lower than the stock set up without any problems.

anyways sorry to hear about your car.

pinakurat

sorry to hear. A lot of people do go through puddles here in NYC whenever it's raining hard here and they wind up getting stuck.

crazydrifter

this happen to a friend of mine, he just driving home in a rain storm ran through a deep puddle and blew a hole in his block, but he was in a VERY low integra

yarou

iTrader: (1)

^which probably has a CAI?

Your stock intake should block a good amount of water that could possibly be sucked up, you would have had to gone through a small flood to hydrolock the motor. aftermarket intake is a different story

ryguy

iTrader: (1)

Did somebody cut a hole in that box to make a ram air intake? Thats what they did on mine, placing the air intake very low to the ground. Still, I have gone through some deep puddles with it.