I have a cai with no bypass and I was driving in the pouring rain, my car couldnt make it up any hills, let alone accelerate. The engine sounds awful...what do i do now?

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When I hydrolocked my engine I took it to the dealer. All they did was take the spark plugs out and kept on cranking it to shoot the water out of the cylinders from what I was told. I guess you will need some way to keep your battery charged while doing so, and do not hold the key in the start postion for more than 8-10 secs so that you dont kill your starter.
The dealer drained and refilled the oil and I was turboed shortly after for about 3 years with no problems.

Hopefully you were not going too fast and damaged the internals, which of course is a bigger problem.

It's worth a shot. Hope I helped in any way.

Good luck!

Jonathan
95 Eclipse GS
8 injector
Hahn Stage 3.5
Howell 2.2L Stroker

T O T A L L E D, T H A N K S T O S O M E A S S H A T!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it still does not work, then try disconnecting the injector harness and try try try again.

Jonathan
95 Eclipse GS
8 injector
Hahn Stage 3.5
Howell 2.2L Stroker

T O T A L L E D, T H A N K S T O S O M E A S S H A T!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks a lot. I ended up taking the intake off and with doing so i found the air filter was mangled. I got a ride to a performance shop and priced out a new filter and bypass valve. (90-100$)the parts will be in tomorrow, but i put everything back on, ran the car for about 10 minutes and took it for a spin. It seems to be ok, just a little laggy. thanks a lot for the input, i was shittin my pants last night and this morning.

keg killa
99 gs

just because it runs doesn't mean something isn't wrong....id change the oil..and spark plugs......the water could of fouled one out.....or cracked one....not sure if would still run or not but if cant hurt....

dfresh

will post more pics when front is painted

Yeah most defintitely change the oil and do a routine tune up. Glad you got it up and running and nothing major seems to be damaged.

Jonathan
95 Eclipse GS
8 injector
Hahn Stage 3.5
Howell 2.2L Stroker

T O T A L L E D, T H A N K S T O S O M E A S S H A T!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 months ago i had this problem, except not only wasi driving in the rain, i went thru a monstrous puddle due to the lack of vision I had, and Im talking this thing was almost at my waist. It got into my engine and bent a rod, it made a VERY loud clanking noise. I changed my oil, took the spark plugs out and shot as much water was i could out cranking it, changed the spark plugs and wires, but the damage was already done and in the process of doing that I fried my battery and my starter so I had to replace those as well. I ended up takin the motor out, strippin it apart, putting in a new piston/rod all new rings, new bearings, new headgasket, new valve cover gasker, and she runs like a champ now. I wish the best of luck, but id be quick to change that oil and spark plugs, you just might have gotten lucky!

-Ryan a.k.a. "r'ICE'r" 99EclipseGS "10th Anniversary Edition" *2Low,2Slow* / Superior Master Of The A604 / 18.418 1/4e.t. .165 r/t