Man, if I drove a truck I would be looking at snorkles.
Its a 2WD. Plus it's built for street. I was just wondering about those front mount intakes and wheather or not they prevented hydrolocking. I already have a short ram intake on my truck.
If you are building for street and you want to do an intake, most will just say CAI.
That intercooler lookalike is minus points on the cool ride scale.
Hydrolock, thats when an engine ingests so much water it can't compress and stalls (maybe blows shit apart). You shouldn't be getting into that situation on the street unless you live and drive in floods or rivers, or if your headgasket lets go in a real bad way. OR you mount an intake so low that your chance of drowning your ride are increased.
I was gonna try and get a custom one my matrix but paint it black or a dark color instead. So it doesn't stand out so damn much. Except mine wouldn't look like that damn honda, mine has a kit on it so it's not so revealing. I don't know check out my pics. in the link below and let me know if that will work. Or i can make a front mount/CAI for the diff. seasons. I have a short ram right now but i want to upgrade.
i don't know what hydrolocking is but being a former turbo owner I say that looks like an intercooler.
and if your car is normally aspired, why would you get an intercooler. The first thing someone who knows about super/turbo charging will do is look for the super/turbo charger and if they don't find one it will be like why would you buy that thing.
There are two types on engines, normally aspired and supercharged (turbo being a subset of supercharged). Gas engines and diesel are both commonly supercharged but it is more common with diesels because they need a higher compression ratio to function. What normally aspired (N/A) engines do to get air is to create a vacuum to draw in air, the supercharged engine has an air compressor to aid in this process so it gets more air. More air more power. The mass of air in an N/A engine is governed by displacement, but a supercharged engine will allow a higher mass of air to be used so it is like having more displacement but in a smaller engine. Unfortunately, as air is compressed to a smaller volume the heat becomes concentrated resulting in a higher temperature. High temperature increases the incidence of preignition mitigating compression. To illustrate, air coming in the the turbo may be 70f but will be like 180 coming out so it then goes to the intercooler where it gets cooled to about 90f. That's why they are used, there is no other reason.
There is no way whatsoever an n/a engine can benifit from an intercooler... and if there is, I am curious to know.
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Front mount intake and hydrolocking?
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