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CAI good for Cali weather?

Old Feb 13, 2003 | 03:15 AM
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CAI good for Cali weather?

Is CAI good for California weather? I mean with the flash storms and flooding that we sometimes get...... how likely will it be for water to get sucked in?
Or should I just stick with AEM short ram?
what do you people use or what is your experience?
Old Feb 13, 2003 | 01:34 PM
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Flash storms and floods? Where do you live? Humbolt?
Unless you completely submerge your air filter, you don't have to worry about hydrolock. The bypass valve saps power, so if I were you, I'd save a couple bucks and get the AEM sri. I don't think there's much, if any, difference in power output, and they both look/sound killer!
Old Feb 13, 2003 | 01:50 PM
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i was thinkin the same thing last night. but from what i understand if u buy an injen u can pull the cai part off an use it as a sri.. and besides if u look at your car where the filter actually goes.. i dont see much water going in there unless your streets are prone to flooding.
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Old Feb 13, 2003 | 03:53 PM
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newsflash.

if you can't see the road under the water don't try
to drive through it.

otherwise don't worry about. We get rain what 40-60
days a year and out of that maybe 5-10 days are heavy?
Old Feb 13, 2003 | 04:01 PM
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I live in San Diego and I'll go with the Injen, but man we got a storm in here the last 2-3 days, and I've never seen this much rain here in the last 12 years I've lived here. But my Pro5 survived going into a good 1 ft deep of water, I don't have any intake but it was sure worriesome either way.
Old Feb 13, 2003 | 04:07 PM
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Originally posted by digitalpro5
I live in San Diego and I'll go with the Injen, but man we got a storm in here the last 2-3 days, and I've never seen this much rain here in the last 12 years I've lived here.
I guess we've been getting lucky in Santa Cruz, just a liitle cloudy.
We have been getting some big swell, though.
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