Yay, just put my K&N typhoon in.

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:04 pm

I put it in today, pretty simple install, basically my first. Started it up, and the sounds reverberating from the fenderwell made me look for the Silverado that started up at the same time, hahahahah.

I should have a pic up soon.

Demonik · Post by **Demonik** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:52 pm

it sounds awesome huh? same one i have, looks good too

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:57 pm

PICS!!!!!!!!!

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:38 am

Crappy pic from a crappy camera

Post by **Canada** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:43 pm

Is this the one that comes with the bracket for the throttle body?

t vago · Post by **t vago** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:46 pm

I'd get rid of that intake if I was you. That is, unless you want to try out my revolutionary new Crispy Hydrolocking Engine Technology. Or you can avoid puddles like the plague... Your choice.

J-Villa · Post by **J-Villa** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:55 pm

i had a intake like that for a year and 16k miles drove through everything...never had a problem...just don't drive like a retard and try to go through giant puddles taht are like lakes

Demonik · Post by **Demonik** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:36 pm

J-Villa wrote:i had a intake like that for a year and 16k miles drove through everything...never had a problem...just don't drive like a retard and try to go through giant puddles taht are like lakes

ive had this on my car for 3 years now, never had a problem...but like he said...just dont try to go through deep puddles

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:39 pm

t vago wrote:I'd get rid of that intake if I was you. That is, unless you want to try out my revolutionary new Crispy Hydrolocking Engine Technology. Or you can avoid puddles like the plague... Your choice.

WHAA? been running an iceman for years with no problems in moist alabama. i guess italy is a swamp!

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:05 pm

......I live in fresno.....Puddles? AHAHAHAHAHHA.

Edit: we do get some, but its summer right now...

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:15 pm

I've been through Seattle's flood season... I just avoid puddles, it isn't too hard.

with that said... smurf does happen sometimes.

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:29 pm

ya, i know ive seen some random shit, and i know how make sure the car is safe.

Post by **occasional demons** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:02 pm

I can't tell from the pic., is there any kind of rubber grommet where it goes into the fenderwell or does it just rattle around in the hole? I haven't got one yet but I know from having my TB just hanging off the bellows it makes a nice accordian with the vacuum changing from TB closed to part thottle. (Not that there is anything wrong with a tube in a loose hole) Is there?

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:16 pm

its not to loose, theres a bolt that holds it on.

But other than that, its jsut a pipe connected to a big cone filter inside the fendwerwell.

One thing to remember, dont loosen your bellows tube and forget to tighten it, mine came off on the freeway, and put me at full throttle (Kinda reminded me of that part on "A scanner darkly") I turned it off, and rolled to a stop after popping it in neutral.

Kinda scary, lol.

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:42 pm

I drove with my intake in BAD rain and I noticed it started bogging down. I got kinda scared, but it never really died on me.

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:50 pm

nah that happend to a friend of mine on his focus, no real threat. the only problem is if you actually submerge the filter, or close to it.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:37 pm

I have had my aem for about 3 years and ive had no problems driving in rain.

t vago · Post by **t vago** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:36 am

J-Villa wrote:just don't drive like a retard and try to go through giant puddles taht are like lakes

That's right - be sure to install a depth finder on your car, too, so you can accurately gauge the depth of any puddles before going through them. Otherwise, people might think that you drive like a retard when you do accidentally go through one of these deep puddles and kill your engine - especially in an area that you're not familiar with.

NeonBluSXT · Post by **NeonBluSXT** » Sun May 20, 2007 4:49 am

A depth finder? Never heard of it hmmm

OB · Post by OB » Sun May 20, 2007 4:54 am

If you live in an area where water gets that high, you shouldnt have a cold air intake that relocates your filter to 7" off the ground. Anyone with a brain could tell you that. Use common sense. take it off during the winter even.

K&N FTW.

t vago · Post by **t vago** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:44 am

OB wrote:If you live in an area where water gets that high, you shouldnt have a cold air intake that relocates your filter to 7" off the ground. Anyone with a brain could tell you that. Use common sense. take it off during the winter even.

K&N FTW.

Well, I'm glad I found a real brain here in OB. After all, I've only been living in the Naples, Italy area for almost a year, and I haven't fully mapped all of the area around here where water might get that high during a rainstorm. You must know all of the ins and outs of all of the streets here, where all of the drains are on these streets, and which of these drains aren't clogged up by garbage. Oh, yah. OB - You can also tell me which of these streets won't magically develop potholes deep enough to a. not be seen at night, and b. deep enough to overcome your magically derived 7" figure. Oh, and you're such a driving expert that you can also school me on how to drive carefully enough to avoid Italians who have no respect at all for traffic laws, who are also navigating some of the lakes that form on the backroads here.

Since we're getting into a pissing match here, OB, how do you know that I didn't have a Typhoon on my car when I hydrolocked the engine? Oh, wait! You didn't! You just assumed that I'm going on some anti-CAI intake rant, didn't you?

BTW, did you even bother to measure the distance between the ground and your Typhoon's filter? No, you didn't, did you? Rather than actually do so, and come up something closer to 10 inches, you just picked a number out of thin air in an attempt to be clever. Such a brain...

IceMan Magnum CAI, FTW.

bigbird · Post by **bigbird** » Sun May 20, 2007 8:19 am

back on topic please!

rannox · Post by **rannox** » Sun May 20, 2007 12:08 pm

Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:07 pm

Basically...everyone's roads are different, depends where you live. Use your judgement, and you should be fine. Just because its a CAI, doenst mean its going to hydrolock your engine. Just dont drive through huge puddles and hit the gas at the same time. Ive had to drive through large puddles in the rain and I just let off the gas and coasted through before I started going again so water wouldnt get soaked up. Also, a bypass filter would be good if you are that worried.

OB · Post by OB » Mon May 21, 2007 4:27 am

t vago wrote:
OB wrote:If you live in an area where water gets that high, you shouldnt have a cold air intake that relocates your filter to 7" off the ground. Anyone with a brain could tell you that. Use common sense. take it off during the winter even.

K&N FTW.
Well, I'm glad I found a real brain here in OB. After all, I've only been living in the Naples, Italy area for almost a year, and I haven't fully mapped all of the area around here where water might get that high during a rainstorm. You must know all of the ins and outs of all of the streets here, where all of the drains are on these streets, and which of these drains aren't clogged up by garbage. Oh, yah. OB - You can also tell me which of these streets won't magically develop potholes deep enough to a. not be seen at night, and b. deep enough to overcome your magically derived 7" figure. Oh, and you're such a driving expert that you can also school me on how to drive carefully enough to avoid Italians who have no respect at all for traffic laws, who are also navigating some of the lakes that form on the backroads here.

Since we're getting into a pissing match here, OB, how do you know that I didn't have a Typhoon on my car when I hydrolocked the engine? Oh, wait! You didn't! You just assumed that I'm going on some anti-CAI intake rant, didn't you?

BTW, did you even bother to measure the distance between the ground and your Typhoon's filter? No, you didn't, did you? Rather than actually do so, and come up something closer to 10 inches, you just picked a number out of thin air in an attempt to be clever. Such a brain...

IceMan Magnum CAI, FTW.

I apologize for not strolling out to my garage and measuring the distance of my air filter from the ground. I understand that its possible to run into bad weather/areas where you cant do much about your cars setup, but is that really a good excuse for hydrolocking an engine? I dont know about you, but if I moved to another country, i'd check some things out about it first. Being a car guy, that sort of thing might come up. Have a good one.

heyitsstock · Post by **heyitsstock** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:18 am

0o0o0o someones trying to gain instant internet cred

o snappppppp

its getting rough in here

i have gone many puddles with my cai installed maybe you heard of one, the atlantic ocean... yep i just drove right across it. good thing it wasnt that deep so i didnt look retarted

danman132x · Post by **danman132x** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:45 pm

I was worried about the AEM intake I had, but during a recent rainstorm, I was heading up a decent slope on a state road. The rain was very strong, and while driving I ran through about an inch of water for a good 50 feet that was gushing down the street. It made a wave about 10 feet over my car, but I immediately let of the gas and had no problems with hydrolocking. Kinda eased my worries about the filter location, just let off the throttle as soon as your in the water.

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:53 am

Bahhahahahaa this is funny smeg....

Don't rip on it through puddles and you'll be fine, they have to be deep enough for the filter to submerge for you to be in any real trouble... if you have a 5-speed, just push in the clutch. There will be so little vacuum that the engine will not be able to pull in any water through the filter..(this is if you can't avoid a big puddle ahead)

If your really worried about this type of crap happening to ya.. then go out and buy yourself a K&N Precharger.. its a nylon over-filter that goes on the CAI filter.. and its like a nylon running coat, water just beads off of it.. they make your filter 99.7 percent waterproof..

lambostealth · Post by **lambostealth** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:35 pm

rannox wrote:Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?

Don't get too smug........I live in Hanford (30 miles south of Fresno), I hydrolocked my engine last year........I had the EXACT SAME INTAKE you do.

By the way, there are supposed to be two brackets that come with the K&N Typhoon, if you didn't get them, I suggest you call K&N.

mike9fore · Post by **mike9fore** » Tue May 29, 2007 10:35 pm

did we all forget about the by-pass valve? AEM created it for all the CAI (fenderwall) $45.00 could be a life saver!