Well of course, the guy at AEM told you what ever he needed to to make you buy the intake, or if you already had, to keep a better image and spreed to the word, just as you are now.

As far as complete submersion, funny that he mentioned that, because that's the only time that that stupid bypass valve actually works, when there is a sufficient pressure change, in other words, when the filter is almost or completely submerged, which by that time, it's way too late!!!

As far as East coast or West coast, it doesn't matter where you are, water is water, and if you ever run into any water, deep enough to get into your filter, you run a very good risk of hydro locking it, and it doesn't take any more then a couple ounces to hydro-lock your motor. Sometimes if you're lucky, the water will evaporate before it hits the combustion chamber, if not, say good bye to your rods.

It's not likely to just splash into your filter from a puddle or something, as you have a splah gaurd, and it's a lot harder to suck up water then air, not to mention, filters ussualy, if you keep up on it, have oil, which gives it a certain amount of water proofing. As I said, just beware of standing water, and large puddles, go up to your splash gaurd, and you may be explaining to your insurance company why your motor just suddenly stoped working.

In any case, I've had three friends where I live in south FL, that jave locked up their motors with cold air intakes in the last two years, on who actually had that air bypass valve, who tried to ask AEM what was up, but all AEM had to say is that they were very sorry it didn't work, but if you read the disclamer that they were not responsible. Just be careful, it's not worth a couple extra horses to have to buy a new motor.

As far as the comptech ice box, it is vented, and designed so there is not enough intrernal pressure to suck up water, and there are a couple drainage holes on the way to the filter just in case, not to mention the filter is still kept in the engine bay.

Any way, Later!!!

Aj

 

i've had the aem cai on my 02' rsx-S, i loved it since i first revved it up...it has a badass sound but only when revving up around 4 and higher then screams loud as hell, but gave alot of pull. it gave me about 10-20 extra hp, i can feel it...my friend dyno'ed his cai on his rsx-S...it claimed 20whp, so hes producing 225bhp and 185whp with 132lb of wtorque. i'd most likely be getting another aem cai for this itr.

 

Unfotunately for us, unlike yours, our factory intake system was pretty well designed from the factory, and therefor we don't get the same gains out of a cold air system. Aside from that, So far, other than the Weapon R box, I havn't seen any cold box setups for RSX, and including the weapon R, havn't ever seen any dynoed......

At this point, I suppose it doesn't really matter which you get, what ever it is, it'll suck air up, which is the whole purpose.

Later,
Aj

 

yea, that's true...gotta worry about puddles. :?

im gonna use my cai from the rsx and cut out some shape and install it on an itr motor. that would be badass, hope it gives some gains.

 

Another possibility to consider in the Injen CAI. To me it fits better than the AEM and is a higher quality piece. Also AEM is about to come out with their V2 intake for our cars, which is suppossed to have some pretty impresive gains.

As for this hydrolocking thing, I had my car in Florida for over a year before moving here and have driven in some pretty heavy rain storms, without any problems. The only time you would have to really worry would be going through deep puddles or the like.

 

Here is a plot of the 2 ran on same day. Forget the last 200 rpms. I let off for some reason. As you can see, pretty darm close outside of the AEM hump @ 4400. You make the decision!