Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
No, it would be pressurized because the amount of air entering the box would be greater than that leaving the box.
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My custom 3.5" cold air intake
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tredse1
CEG'er
yeah, i guess ur right about that, how big of a catch do you think it wud need?
Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
What do you mean by catch? the Scoop?
tredse1
CEG'er
no i mean whatever one might come up with to "catch" potential water in...to keep it out of the filter.
striker2
Official CEG Vendor
no matter how hard you try your not going to get a ram air effect, at least not till hit well over what the contour will top out at (somewhere around 400MPH is the number thats stuck in my head). thats not to say that the cooler air from the scoop wont be beneficial but you certainly wont be pressurizing the intake system.
tredse1
CEG'er
ok, i think i know what you're say'n, but do you think this project would be worth the trouble?
striker2
Official CEG Vendor
by the time you spend the time and money making it all work so that the engine doesnt suck in any water and make the hood look good, you definitely could have just run a CAI into the fender.
so IMO trying to mod the hood for this is not worth it.
tredse1
CEG'er
yes, i figured that, but i am really reluctant to do the fender thing, my sis hydrolocked an 95 intrepid by driving tru a mid-rim deep puddle...they run the air thru the fender straight to the ground...seems like to big of a risk to me, but maybey that was just a freak incident, i dunno.
striker2
Official CEG Vendor
NPG cold air intake. also if your really worried about it then you can install one of those AEM water bypass valves under the hood.
tredse1
CEG'er
NPG cold air intake. also if your really worried about it then you can install one of those AEM water bypass valves under the hood.
yes, think'n bout something like that too...where wud be the best all-around place to buy one of those setups?
striker2
Official CEG Vendor
Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
Has anybody tested the temperatures of the NPG intake. It looks like it would be draxing in stagnant air from within the bumper.
The idea of the 'ram' intake isn't so much for the volume but for the effect of the air. My friend has a cold air intake with a scoop under his car in a suzuki aerio 2.3 and when we are driving around at 45mph the intake temp is sometimes 1-2 degrees lower than the outside temperature. That is because of the air rushing over the sensor. That is what I am trying to achieve.
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95pgt-t
Hard-core CEG'er
thats not how bypass valves work LT. they work via suction. they'll only open when the filter is submerged to the point were no air come's in creating the suction which makes them open. they're spring loaded.
Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
Then its next to worthless... I have no intention of fording rivers in my CSVT
striker2
Official CEG Vendor
no but that big puddle you couldnt avoid that just soaked the filter could end up being bad.
Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
I'm using a mesh/metal filter, it won't soak.
EuroTour
Hard-core CEG'er
So just because you filter is made of mesh and metal its not gonna suck in water from an unavoidable puddle? Any filter placed directly in contact with a puddle is going to induce water. 
Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
Read ALL the previous comments.
Lt_hailBob
Veteran CEG'er
My filter, hanging a little too low recently had a head on collision with a dead racoon laying in the road and subsequently snapped in half. The cheap ass filter broke in half so back to autozone to buy another stubby filter to replace the old one. No K&N till I get a more permanent air filter setup.
RAYSVT
CEG'er
He had the pipe bent and then he rapped it and it has a k&n on it I think.