FILTER needs to be completely submerged to ahve a problem....i have the gen 3 and zero issues and i drope thru some crappy rain, also if its really that bad, u shouldnt be on a flooded road..lol

 

That's what I was thinking!!!

 

+1, this has been beatin to death in the Injen threads. Hydro lock is highly unlikely. Does anyone actually know someone who it has happened to? Everyone says "I heard" or "I know a guy" but I have not seen one person on any of the boards I frequent to validate.

 

Unless you plan on playing U-boat commander, Its highly unlikely to happen. I think the story got started in the off road community and morphed into an internet legend!

Or you can just run pre-filters over the cartridges. Not only do they work very well at deflecting water, they also help filter out fine particles from fouling the filters without suffering air flow loss. You just slip them off and give'em a quick rinse once in a while.

 

We run those pre-filter "socks" on air intakes on watercraft that are exposed to about 100x the amount of water your cars intakes will be potentially exposed to and have no problems.

They repel pretty much 100% of water that hits them unless you hold a spray nozzle right up to the element and shoot it. You can hold them under the running water in a sink and very little, if any water will actually go through the material itself.....

I would not be concerned...

 

i have a set of red ones on order from injen for my Stillen, havent had any trouble with the hyrdo shield but you can never be too careful.

 

Hydrolock is a definite possibility. A SLIGHT possibility though. I've had one on my SE-R for 8 years now with zero problems. It was daily driven up until this past April and even driven through some really crappy conditions in Jersey City, NJ. I drove through a puddle with water up to the underside of the doors once and just carefully muddled through. In my eyes (I have a friend who argues this point) as long as you're not revving like crazy creating a huge vacuum at the intake, you should be alright. Anytime I came aross the situation where I knew I was going to be going through a large puddle (unavoidable before anyone says anything) I'd just let the car coast and try to keep the application of throttle to a minimum. No problems to date. I even had the car out at Pocono Raceway this past fall at a track event in a hurricane with 8 inches of standing water on the track... no problems.

As for knowing someone that hydrolock occured; yes. My friend's brother had it happen to him twice. I know him and have seen his cars yadda, yadda, yadda so it's not someone I know through someone through someone else. He had it happen at his workplace (parking lot that apparently floods a lot) with an older riced out civic several years ago and more recently with a Spec V. You'd think he would've learned after the first time

edit: I forgot to mention that I once drove through some SERIOUS snow (18 inches or so unplowed) and the car finally wound up stalling. Turned out that the ENTIRE engine bay was packed with snow and it froze the air intake temp sensor which then cut air/fuel and caused the car to shut down

 

My Grandpa manage to hydrolock his 01 E-class in about 6 inches of water. It was bone stock. So it is possible while rather unlikely.

Yesterday there were some major puddling issue going on from the 134 to the 2 fwy. I was afraid of getting water up into my oem intakes even. When I got home I popped the hood to check and it was pretty wet inside, not the intakes but other part of the engine bay.

 

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris hydrolock his car out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

 

Ha ha. funny thing is, i know people that actually try and have conversations like that.

 

hahaha now thats funny