Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

I'm unloading my Sport rims, no rash no TPMS, I need gas money for my road trip! $225 local pick up txt is best 5109386655

 

Water injection is something you should be careful with too. It's possible to get too much in the cylinder and well, water just doesn't compress like air

I'd be worried about sucking up filter media too (as the water breaks them down). I can't imagine any of that in the oil galleries would be good.

 

A couple guys in my old car club with CAI hydrolocked their cars driving on the street in heavy rains. These were lowered Scion's, with the air filters located behind the lower grills. IIRC there were 2 guys here in CA and a handful of others across the US who had the same issues with the same CAI setup.

Most of them rebuilt and switched to short ram intakes, another guy kept his CAI and put one of those bag things (don't know if they work or not http://stores.speedcorps.com/catalog/injen_hydro.jpg) on the filter element to prevent it from happening again.

So, a slammed street car hitting a puddle can suck enough water to damage the engine. Crossing standing water certainly can, too, and easier than you would think.

 

Bye bye kitchen.

 

I just remembered the stock airbox runs to the fenderwell area. That's probably what ended up happening in your case. Now that you mention it too, I am going to look into a different intake, maybe adapt the volant ram air one to my stock hose.

 

Does this mean no more food photos from you for a while?

 

Water is not compressible, that's why in engineering we do pressure tests with it instead of gas, you don't need an explosion proof room.

 

You do pressure tests with water?

 

Lets say you want to test the pressure at which an air tank explodes? If you pressurize it with water instead of gas, then when the tank fails it is not a violent explosion.

 

Nope. Got a BBQ and a kitchen next store. Lol

 

Lets say you have a brazed silicon assembly that needs to be pressure tested. If you just pump gas into it, you are creating a bomb and run the risk of seriously injuring people if the the assembly fails.

Use water instead because it is non-compressible, then if the assembly fails nobody dies.

Remember water at the bottom of the deepest ocean isn't anymore dense than water at the surface. Very simply speaking of course.

 

What's up guys.I just put some new rubber on the Taco .Nitto 325/65/18 with a 6 inch procomp lift and I'm wondering what my numbers should be when I take it for alignment? Thanx

 

Right. Definitely so.. I just wanted to make sure that we were on the same page as far as what I thought you were saying and what you were actually saying.

 

i broke sysprep

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Will do! Thanx

 

got any pics?^^

 

lol, who uses sysprep anymore??