BOV prevent Hydrolock???

[Tarmac02]

Anybody had any luck with this? With the BOV releasing pressure as you hit a large puddle can you prevent hydrolock???

 

[Killa_dsm]

Well, hitting just a puddle wont cause hydrolock. It takes alot more water then just a puddle. So I wouldnt really worry about it.

My friends Lancer hydrolocked when he was driving through a flooded road. And it only hydrolocked when he hit a pothole and the water flew over his hood and windshield.

 

[Defiant]

Anybody had any luck with this? With the BOV releasing pressure as you hit a large puddle can you prevent hydrolock???

What the hell are you thinking of?
Hydrolock is incompressible water inside the cylinders, already trapped by the closed valves.
The BOV vents compressed air in the intake tract that has been blocked by a closed throttle butterfly.
They have no inter-relation. At all. WTF

 

[MyBeatGSX]

^If you let off and vent the BOV right as the water is being sucked by that point in charge pipe, it will blow it out and you'll be fine. I'm just kidding.


Let me ask you a question (original poster). Why are you concerned about hydrolock? I drove a Saturn with a CAI that's filter was mounted 6" off the ground with no splash guarding around it and no bypass valve. I drove that thing through a rain storm so bad I was at WOT on the highway just to maintain 40mph, that's how much water the car was going through. Never hydrolocked.

You need to COMPLETELY submerge the filter or suck up an enormous amount of water. It just isn't going to happen. If you try to fordge (sp?) a river in your car, then it will happen (like the guy with the Lancer up there^^).

In my life I've only seen ONE car with a hydrolocked engine. This lady in a Camry hit a 6" deep puddle at 70mph and the water went OVER the entire car. Camry intakes are at the top of the front grill, so obviously the engine was toast.