Alright well I'm new to the forum (as far as posting goes... been reading here for about a year, ever since i got my '03 CD Silver SVT [
] ). Car is completely stock right now, but i've been tossin around the idea of putting a new intake in for a while and reading a bunch of the experiences and ?'s everyone here has posted.
On to the purpose of this post: A buddy of mine is also looking at putting in an Intake (we're both looking at cold air) on his '94 Celica GT, which will need to be home-grown since as far as he can tell, noone makes intakes for his car (no surprise). Anyway, he recently contacted a friend of his Dad's who has been doing automotive and machine shop work for many years, just to run his idea past him and see what he thought. Basically, the guy told him that any little bit of water that possibly got into the intake and through the throttle body into the cylinders because the filter was down low enough to allow road spray and/or small puddles (less than 1.5" deep, nothing much bigger around here) could cause rusting on the cylinder walls overnight.Very bad thing, obviously. I was considering doing the same thing (homegrown kit, if possible), and was surprised to hear that from this guy, given what i've seen of the popular AEM CAI's and other kits that put the filter down low near the drivers side wheel. As far as I can tell, the only thing that's keeping water from getting into the intake on the AEM CAI is the filter, correct? I know several people have made their own splash guards from plexiglass or bought them premade, but for those that use just the AEM kit with no extras, its just the filter and thats it, possibly a bypass valve. I've read many posts about concerns with hydrolocking, and it seems that everybody has come to the conclusion that without completely submerging the filter in a puddle, simple road spray and driving through a few small shallow puddles isn't going to cause any problems with the AEM kit. Does this guy have any idea what he's talking about, or is there something i'm missing that is special about the AEM kit that prevents water that gets through the filter into the intake from making it up to the throttle body/into the engine?
To put it very simply: If i were to make my own intake, using the AEM or other kits as an outline/guidline, that consisted simply of piping that ran from the throttle body down to the driver's side wheel using the same path that the AEM uses to get down there, then terminated it with a good K&N filter and supported it as best i could to protect against engine torque stress, do i really need to worry about small amounts of water getting into my cylinders and rusting?
Thanks for your help everyone, hopefully I can make some dough and have all kinds of other questions when i start putting more stuff on my baby[]
] ). Car is completely stock right now, but i've been tossin around the idea of putting a new intake in for a while and reading a bunch of the experiences and ?'s everyone here has posted.On to the purpose of this post: A buddy of mine is also looking at putting in an Intake (we're both looking at cold air) on his '94 Celica GT, which will need to be home-grown since as far as he can tell, noone makes intakes for his car (no surprise). Anyway, he recently contacted a friend of his Dad's who has been doing automotive and machine shop work for many years, just to run his idea past him and see what he thought. Basically, the guy told him that any little bit of water that possibly got into the intake and through the throttle body into the cylinders because the filter was down low enough to allow road spray and/or small puddles (less than 1.5" deep, nothing much bigger around here) could cause rusting on the cylinder walls overnight.Very bad thing, obviously. I was considering doing the same thing (homegrown kit, if possible), and was surprised to hear that from this guy, given what i've seen of the popular AEM CAI's and other kits that put the filter down low near the drivers side wheel. As far as I can tell, the only thing that's keeping water from getting into the intake on the AEM CAI is the filter, correct? I know several people have made their own splash guards from plexiglass or bought them premade, but for those that use just the AEM kit with no extras, its just the filter and thats it, possibly a bypass valve. I've read many posts about concerns with hydrolocking, and it seems that everybody has come to the conclusion that without completely submerging the filter in a puddle, simple road spray and driving through a few small shallow puddles isn't going to cause any problems with the AEM kit. Does this guy have any idea what he's talking about, or is there something i'm missing that is special about the AEM kit that prevents water that gets through the filter into the intake from making it up to the throttle body/into the engine?
To put it very simply: If i were to make my own intake, using the AEM or other kits as an outline/guidline, that consisted simply of piping that ran from the throttle body down to the driver's side wheel using the same path that the AEM uses to get down there, then terminated it with a good K&N filter and supported it as best i could to protect against engine torque stress, do i really need to worry about small amounts of water getting into my cylinders and rusting?
Thanks for your help everyone, hopefully I can make some dough and have all kinds of other questions when i start putting more stuff on my baby[
]
