Preparation for the STILLEN supercharger

1slow370

god hydrolocking is never the problem anyone makes it out to be. Experiment for you take an air filter ram it into a sink the next time you wash it with the coupler side up and see how much water gets in. I used to run a cone filter outside of my car (like above the hood) because well the whole supercharger sat above the hood and i drove it on days that seemed like the big man himself was pissing on my car and never had any problems because by the time the water makes it through your filter it mixes with air and becomes a fine mist that just burns right through. I could see a problem if you drove into a lake tho like that Bugatti in the videos.

Edit: and damn right the sliders don't work i wish they did but then i just wander on over to the NSFW thread

Kyle@STILLEN

Hydrolocking can be a huge problem if the filters are too low. Take for example the Nissan 300ZX engines. We used to have those things come in reliably every winter because all of the cold air intakes mounted the filters directly in front of the radiator just a few inches above the bottom of the car. It never failed, every winter for about ten years we would have about 4 or 5 cars in our shop getting rebuilt motors due to hydrolocking.

I've also seen a few G's and Z's with hydrolocked motors due to the intakes being mounted really low. It should absolutely be a concern. If it wasn't a concern then companies like AEM wouldn't worry about including their by-pass valves in their intakes.

With that being said though, you have to submerge the filters in order for the water to be sucked up through the intake. You have to look at the engine like a big air pump, that engine starts sucking in air pretty hard when running and even harder when boosted. It can absolutely suck up water and damage the engine.