Thread: HotShot Cold Air Intake - questions

today it was raining really hard in Tulsa and i went through these crappy streets and was SOOO glad I hadn't installed this thing yet.. it seems like I would have had hydrolock for sure..

the puddles in the narrow streets were deep and water was flying up 5/6 feet on both sides of my car..

Maybe its a very early one? I'm sure they changed it up a few times so maybe you have a really OG one.

Also don't worry about hydro-locking it. Unless you drive stupidly it should be fine. Even in flooding and torrential rain.

haha.. someone else on the old forum said the exact opposite, that it's one of the last ones they made, they said they could tell because it's stainless steel and the early ones were "mild steel" - whatever that means..


hmm.. really? cool.. yeah the way the water was shooting out the sides of my car I was thinking i'd have been hosed..

Dunno my experience is different I guess. I never got one that wasn't polished although only one was bought new. Also I have driven CAI in rain a lot and you gotta earn the hydro-lock through stupidity or blind dumb bad luck.

yeah i have a place racing cai and i drive in rain all the time and never had any ill effects, you'll be fine

These "puddles" were like 6 inches deep for 100 yards at a time... With water shooting up 6 ft...


But everyone keeps saying I'll be fine... lol

should invest into an aem bypass valve bud. could save your motor and they arent that expensive

He has good reason to worry about hydro locking here, it can rain up to 4-5"s in one hour here, god hates us, it floods the streets regularly here.

thats a really interesting place on where they put the vent for the crankcase, on the maf adapter itself.

Its for the AIV that goes to the stock exhaust secondary on highport USDM motors. Crank case vent is still on the first pipe with idle bypass and the little vacuum line.