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09-19-2010, 06:32 PM
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#1 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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| Anyone use a bypass valve on their cold air intake?
Anyone use a bypass valve on their cold air intake? cuz im thinking of getting a cai + velocity stack but im worried about sucking in water.
just wondering what your opinion is on it. you guys run a cai on the winter?
anyone notice any loses in power when using the bypass valve? cuz im too lazy to take off my bumper a few times every year to swap out the cai for a short ram when the rain is here + it pretty much rains all year here.  | 
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09-20-2010, 10:37 AM
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#2 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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i really dont think water can travel that far up the intake pipe for it to harm anything... if you keep your filter cleaned and oiled, you shouldnt have a problem... and even if a little bit of water gets sucked in, think of it as a meth injection system 
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09-20-2010, 09:24 PM
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Get it.
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10-25-2010, 02:20 AM
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if you're worried jst get it, but that's quite a bit of water to get up that high, you'd have to get splashed quite hard to get the water up that high.
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11-03-2010, 05:03 PM
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#5 | | I don't get it
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get it 100% unless you want a cracked engine block. splashs wont do it its if you drive threw a flooded area mostly
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12-06-2010, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by xpl0sive  i really dont think water can travel that far up the intake pipe for it to harm anything... if you keep your filter cleaned and oiled, you shouldnt have a problem... and even if a little bit of water gets sucked in, think of it as a meth injection system | clearly you don't know what you're talking about. Spilner.
you're the one that' son meth.
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12-06-2010, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by beatdownvictim clearly you don't know what you're talking about. Spilner.
you're the one that' son meth. | Second that. My gf's car almost hydrolocked this year, and the filter was clean and oiled... it doesnt make a diff. If you're going into a deep puddle... a clean oiled filter isnt going to do shit to prevent water from going into your pipe. Look into a hydro shield by injen if you dont want to cut your pipes for the bypass valve.
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12-09-2010, 01:20 PM
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I ran a cold air intake for years and never had a problem.
You need to drive through a flooded area enough and have your entire filter submerged in water to get hydrolocked. I don't think you would want to drive through something like that anyways.
Bypass valve is a waste of money.
But if it makes you feel better, then get it.
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12-20-2010, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by AVS_Racing Anyone use a bypass valve on their cold air intake? cuz im thinking of getting a cai + velocity stack but im worried about sucking in water.
just wondering what your opinion is on it. you guys run a cai on the winter?
anyone notice any loses in power when using the bypass valve? cuz im too lazy to take off my bumper hid bulbs a few times every year to swap out the cai for a short ram when the rain is here + it pretty much rains all year here. | It won't do anything dude. Just get it.
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02-10-2011, 12:35 AM
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aem bypass valve saved my engine last year
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