I am looking to replace my stock hood with an SRT8 style hood. I would upload the image but am new and cannot. However, if you care I have included the link:
I have a K&N CAI and the filter sits just behind the right headlight. There is also a vent in the new hood that sits just above that area. My concern is with water getting pulled into the engine through the hood.
Am I wrong in my assumption? If not, is there a cheap mod I can do the CAI box to shield from the elements?
What is your concern with pulling water into the intake. So long as you don't pull in enough to hydro lock the engine, I don't see the problem. My Trans Am WS6 has a similar set up.
The way the hood is designed with a channel directing water into the louver that sits directly above the CAI box would basically replicate dumping into the intake if it were raining hard enough, running through a car wash...blah,blah,blah.
It is more of an ignorance question than anything. Before I spend the money on the hood, I want to make sure I won't have to redirect my CAI as well.
However, when someone decides to produce a procharger for this particular platform, i"ll have to modify the CAI anyways...
Unless you submerge it, you will never encounter enough water by rainfall to do damage. I came quite close to hydrolocking a vehicle several years ago. My filter was 5 inches off the ground and I ran into flooded roads It cut the power to about 25% and it barley wanted to move. I pulled over and let it idle for a few mins. After that, it was good as new, and raised my filter up after that.
I find a fair bit of water does come in through the hood vents. During a long drive in hard rain, when I pull up to stop I can see a fair bit of water vapour steaming out the vents. Also after a carwash. Probably looks to others like I have a busted rad. It would have freaked me out, had I not had an STI with a huge hood vent too that did exactly the same thing under the same conditions. Guys on the subie forums talk about it all the time.
I find a fair bit of water does come in through the hood vents. During a long drive in hard rain, when I pull up to stop I can see a fair bit of water vapour steaming out the vents. Also after a carwash. Probably looks to others like I have a busted rad. It would have freaked me out, had I not had an STI with a huge hood vent too that did exactly the same thing under the same conditions. Guys on the subie forums talk about it all the time.
The airbox in basically behind the drive side headlamp, so very close to directly underneath the hood vent.
The vapour, steam, I see is from rain and carwash water entering the hood vents and hitting the hot components in the engine bay immediately turning the water to steam. That steam then rises up and exits the hood vents.
:cheers2: Yes I agree :cheers2: All i need is another windy day and a branch :nono:
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