Are Cold Air Intakes safe?

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Were you trying to drive through the ocean or something :P

[leroBob]

u live in alaska probably a hole hell of alot more snow and salt up their or do u guys use somethin else?

i live in wisconsin and the do salt alot because we get freezing rain and alot of snow

[Redog]

I actually changed my CAI to a WAI. I still think water can get up there but after seeing 99Alero's MAF, I changed it out right away.

I will still use CAI on the track. I'm using all the pipes from the CAI in my WAI except for the elbow and downpipe. Will post some pic soon

[Fast Eddie]

Looks like somebody did a poopty install cuz its obvious something was not air tight, even the chepest filters would block all the crap. As for water getting in there i've driven though those deep puddles, 10+" of snow and what not, NO PROBLEMS. The keys are an airtight system and a quality airfilter, K&N and BTW you need to recharge them about every 50K miles more often in harse conditions.

[jturkey69]

umm ok

Originally posted by Fast Eddie@Mar 17 2004, 09:12 PM
Looks like somebody did a poopty install cuz its obvious something was not air tight, even the chepest filters would block all the crap. As for water getting in there i've driven though those deep puddles, 10+" of snow and what not, NO PROBLEMS. The keys are an airtight system and a quality airfilter, K&N and BTW you need to recharge them about every 50K miles more often in harse conditions.

I had an air tight system, Salt dissolves in water which can be suck up the any quality filter. There is a noticable gap between the headlight and the bumper where water easily goes thru.

[jturkey69]

^^dude i totally agree with you, cuz i have had the same problem as well...


.so i guess someone is just that much more lucky huh eddie

[Fast Eddie]

all I know is I've driven my car with water ON the filter (oiled K&N) and no problems, most people will tell ya K&N will not allow water through. But like I said I did a fair bit of snow plowing this winter and driven through HUGE puddles, so yeah I guess I'm lucky.

I had a cold air intake and sucked in water TWICE in one week....just in normal rain too, no big puddles, the filter was NOT submerged AT ALL. So i switched back to the warm air intake (short ram) and acutally i think i like it better..i have much better launch power, not as good high end power but good low end. I guess i was just unlucky w/ my intake cuz i have not heard of anyone gettin water in their system TWICE in like a week! lol..o well. Im just sayin, for all those people that say u have to have ur filter submerged to get water in ur system..YOU'RE WRONG!

had an air tight system, Salt dissolves in water which can be suck up the any quality filter. There is a noticable gap between the headlight and the bumper where water easily goes thru.

I hear ya on that...I didn't notice that gap between the headlights and bumpers but in the morning when I saw it I thought it was body damage untill I saw uplose pix of other alero's online. I pretty much took care of that gap, some spare carbon fiber and 1/2 inch screws should do the trick and it's not noticeable if you aply the carbon fiber underneath the bumper.