Cai sucking in water! Help

or dont go WOT. :) thanks JAPS2K lol. Ill still be careful, but i mean how often will i be driving in flood water in my honda - not me.

Well today i thought something was wrong with my teg, didnt seem to go as good as it should, and we have had rainy wether yesterday. The intake noise seemed to be stiffled to what it normally sounds like.

Pulled the pod off, (injen intake) was nice and clean, looked a touch damp though. Threw my Zero1000 pod on and went for a drive. Straigh away it was motoring hard and the induction noise was ear peicing loud again. So let that be a note to injen users, if there seems to be a problem with power after rain then your pod is probably damp.

***note i did check the inlet tract to see if moisture was present but it was bone dry***

Ill go clean it and make sure its thoroughly dry then give it a reoil. But yeah learn something new all the time. Still waiting on the injen sock from jdm yard.

Cheers all.

Just dryed it, but weighed it beforehand. Was 519g damp, now is back to 487g dry. So approximately 32g which equates to 32mL.

Doesnt sound like much but was enough to be notiveable.

I suppose that's a fair bit of water to have on a pod filter but wouldn't it just make your car go that tiny bit faster by further cooling the air during induction?

I'm glad there's no serious problem though :)

No quite the opposite. Because the fabric used in the pod filters is very fine (close weave or however you would like to imagine it) water will basically block those tiny gaps between the strands causing less airflow. And when a motor is at full noise there is an enormous amout of air being breathed in. Any change to that will result in power loss.

Learn something new every day!

The pod on my EH Civic is in the front bumper, and there's a gap of a few millimetres between the bottom of the headlight and the bumper where water could slide in and onto the pod in heavy rain/somebody's draft.
I was worried at first (lol) but eventually got over it...

I think you would have to get a pretty heavy hit of water to have it end up inside the motor, to get around and up the pipe. I think it would be difficult, but a damp pod - thats easy (given the recent rain we have been having in QLD) bucketloads!