warm air intake??

[bigl83]

so i dont trust my CAI especially on days like today cuz im paranoid im gonna suck up a bunch of water and ruin my engine.

My question is can i just go to a muffler shop and get them to bend me a short piece of 3" pipe and replace the bottom pipe on my AEM with it for the winter?
I just wanna basically shorten the bottom pipe and have the filter in the engine bay instead of in the bumper for the winter.

will doing this cause any ill effects to my car?? I really dont care if i lose a bit of power for the winter.

Car is an 05 sentra spec v

[mphysk]

you're describing a short ram intake, you'll be fine. you could probably make the cut yourself.

[dwarrick]

could you not cut your cai before it goes down into your fender/bumper (i dont know how they route in a sentra) and then get a silicon coupler in the summer to join it back together?

[bigl83]

could you not cut your cai before it goes down into your fender/bumper (i dont know how they route in a sentra) and then get a silicon coupler in the summer to join it back together?i could but i can just get some 3" aluminum pipe bent at an exhaust shop for cheap too and then go back to the AEM piece in the summer, i would rather not hack up my intake.

[DVS Talon]

I'd throw the stock air box on there in the meantime if you've still got it.

[bigl83]

I'd throw the stock air box on there in the meantime if you've still got it.I would but its huge and a real cunt to put back in, so easiest thing will be to just do the short ram, that will keep it safe from sucking in water

[blackfoot]

or you can mcgiver a cone to the stock tubing. and leaving the box out of it? thats what i did to my winter car

[JDMCRX]

This is what i did on my other car long time ago.

I cut a 3" section out and got a cheap HKS style air filter and when it rained bad. I pulled the 3" section out and put the hks cone on and caped the other section

[b18a1+gsr-trans]

my first integra mod back in 2000 was a intake made from black pvc/abs pipe at home depot with a giant air filter on the end (cheap paper cone)

total cost was $25 and gave my car a sweet growl

you dont need as much pipe as me just for a ram air, and i never had any melting problems :mullet:

[ImPuLsIvE.ca]

Have the pipe cut as you stated, then slap the filter onto it for winter. Get a silicon coupler with 2 t-clamps to put it back together in the spring. If that's what you want, you'll be just fine.

However, I wouldn't even bother doing all of that. You'd have to have the front end of your car completely submerged for the filter to take in enough water to damage anything. Plus, its not like the filter is in direct contact to the elements, as your bumper/fenders cover it up. Lots of people drive with CAI's in the winter and have no problems at all.

[Yodums]

However, I wouldn't even bother doing all of that. You'd have to have the front end of your car completely submerged for the filter to take in enough water to damage anything. Plus, its not like the filter is in direct contact to the elements, as your bumper/fenders cover it up. Lots of people drive with CAI's in the winter and have no problems at all.

:stupid:

[bigl83]

Have the pipe cut as you stated, then slap the filter onto it for winter. Get a silicon coupler with 2 t-clamps to put it back together in the spring. If that's what you want, you'll be just fine.

However, I wouldn't even bother doing all of that. You'd have to have the front end of your car completely submerged for the filter to take in enough water to damage anything. Plus, its not like the filter is in direct contact to the elements, as your bumper/fenders cover it up. Lots of people drive with CAI's in the winter and have no problems at all.you would think that but yesterday my filter got so wet that the car would not rev over 4k rpm cuz the air was being cut off, i just wanna be safe..

but on the other hand a VQ swap is only 5000US installed and running.

[Deuce_Bigalow]

However, I wouldn't even bother doing all of that. You'd have to have the front end of your car completely submerged for the filter to take in enough water to damage anything. Plus, its not like the filter is in direct contact to the elements, as your bumper/fenders cover it up. Lots of people drive with CAI's in the winter and have no problems at all.

:stupid:

I'd be more concerned with the filter getting clogged with mud/slush more than anything. You would have to suck up ALOT of water for your engine to be damaged. A little water wont hurt. In fact, I used to inject water into my intake..

[srswarts3]

zomg teh waterz in mah intake gonna mak hydrowlok.

you'd have to suck in like 4L of water to do any serious damage. the only real problem is the filter getting dirty. also it could play tricks on the maf sensor

[b18a1+gsr-trans]

it takes less than half a cup of water to hydrolock a motor, happens all the time, has happend to people on this board and happend to my buddies civic sir in west virginia, that one was a pothole puddle, a heavy splash while under load will suck the whole splash into the filter and up into the manifold. if your throttle plate is closed when you hit the water you have nothing to worry about, not enough draw to suck it all the way up