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1/26/11, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by rsb5772
Why did you choose the Whipple? I'm on the verge of buying one, and the only thing holding me up is deciding which one to get, between the Whipple 2.9, KB 2.8LC, and the Procharger Stage 2 w/ D-1SC.
1/26/11, 04:18 PM
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At the depth that would be required to happen, the entire front end of the car would be under water and you'd have bigger problems.
my last 2 cars have had wide open cone filters a foot from the ground and I've driven through the worst of the worst torrential down pours without any problems.
hydrolock is much much harder to do than people realize. It's actually a pretty common practice for mechanics to take older cars and INTENTIONALLY suck water or seafoam or some other engine cleaner liquid directly into the intake using the engine's vaccume and allowing the engine to stutter to a stall and then sit a while for the cleaner to clean the top of the cylinders/valves/etc.
I've done this on both my current cars and felt noticeable performance improvements.
1/26/11, 08:07 PM
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I daily drove my KB '05 for 50,000 miles. Rain or shine. Never once even had a lick of moisture on the intake. I wouldn't have tried to drive through Katrina, but your standard rain storm will not make a single but of difference. Except that the air will be much cooler/denser and may possible provide you with 1-1.5 more psi depending on your altitude.
1/26/11, 08:46 PM
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It's not a bunch of sheet metal, it's a pretty small section. Lots of truly cold air with this set up, so it's well worth the risk of structural rigidity loss (if that's your concern).
I daily drove my KB '05 for 50,000 miles. Rain or shine. Never once even had a lick of moisture on the intake. I wouldn't have tried to drive through Katrina, but your standard rain storm will not make a single but of difference. Except that the air will be much cooler/denser and may possible provide you with 1-1.5 more psi depending on your altitude.
I daily drove my KB '05 for 50,000 miles. Rain or shine. Never once even had a lick of moisture on the intake. I wouldn't have tried to drive through Katrina, but your standard rain storm will not make a single but of difference. Except that the air will be much cooler/denser and may possible provide you with 1-1.5 more psi depending on your altitude.
At any rate, for those who are still paranoid about it, Injen also makes this.
http://www.autoanything.com/air-filt...A2582A0A0.aspx
I consider it more snake oil than anything but if $25 buys you piece of mind then I guess it serves it's purpose.
That beast must be fun to drive.
1/27/11, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by FastRedPonyCar
driving in the rain is fine. the only chance of hydrolocking the motor would be if you submerged the filter completely and THEN proceeded to suck lots of water into the engine.
At the depth that would be required to happen, the entire front end of the car would be under water and you'd have bigger problems.
my last 2 cars have had wide open cone filters a foot from the ground and I've driven through the worst of the worst torrential down pours without any problems.
hydrolock is much much harder to do than people realize. It's actually a pretty common practice for mechanics to take older cars and INTENTIONALLY suck water or seafoam or some other engine cleaner liquid directly into the intake using the engine's vaccume and allowing the engine to stutter to a stall and then sit a while for the cleaner to clean the top of the cylinders/valves/etc.
I've done this on both my current cars and felt noticeable performance improvements.
2/2/11, 11:51 AM
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