cai + water

I was driving my 01 Integra SE with a Generic air intake withought the
air bypass valve in hard rain. I didn't know anything about
hydrolocking..as i was reving over 3k the car started bogging and
bogging then i saw black smoke coming out the back of the carr through
my rear view, so i pulled into a side street and the car stalled. I was
thinking distributor caps or plug wires, but after a lil research on
the internet I discovered what happened..the car hydrolocked. It is
real, I guess i'm lucky the engine wasn't damaged. Now I am very
careful avoiding every possible puddle ...I'm thinking about gettin
an air bypass valve to prevent future occurences or just disconnecting
the lower pipe and sticking the filter on the first pipe coming the
intake. I live in canada and winter's really slushy and snowy so i'm
sure it could happen again driving throught that shit.

so what i'm asking is:
air bypass valve? or installing the filter directly on the upper pipe
and removing the lower pipe during winter.

 

There are no problems with the stock intake taking on water.

Guess the stock intake just doesn't have that same kewl factor, huh?

 

It's hard for me to even comprehend that an engine can suffer such from
going through puddles, etc... Not in my over fifty years of driving
have I ever experienced such phenomena!

JT

 

You haven't been driving around with a wet/dry ShopVac under your hood,
unlike some "tunerz".

 

From what I have read, the performance "increase" is minimal at best. Years
ago, I modified my Sunbeam Tiger (Ford 260 V8) with headers, larger diameter
exhaust, Shelby hydraulic cam and a Holley 4bbl -- certainly improved
things. But, those old Mustang 260 V8s were understressed to start of with,
unlike today's Honda I4s.