"TeGGeR®" wrote:
>
> "Scotty B" <scottybbad1@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:1159371112.882453.11260@d34g2000cwd.googlegro ups.com:
>
> > 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 :P...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