Car sucking in water
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Lets say you drive through a puddle that is deeper than you thought and suddenly the car sips some of that water through the air intake.
Huge deal or is there some coughing and nothing bad will happen?
depends if the car stalled
It might hydrolock
And thats quite bad yes.
>>15162692
Tiny bit of water probably no big deal. But if its enough it could harm your motor since water cant be compressed and your engine will try to compress it. (Guess which will win)
>>15163089
but what about all the dirt?
so the airfilter will do the job in this case, too?
>>15163726
>air filter
>stopping a lot of water
Picture an aquarium. With one of the spinny wheel water filters.
You really think that will fly inside an engine?
an internal combustion engine?
With water?
need I spell it out for you?
they're really not powerful enough to generate enough head to suck that much water through such a large diameter pipe such as an intake has. they'd choke out from high vacuum first. try holding your palm over the throttle body and see what happens.
you dont drive through water that deep though. because it tends to have a very powerful current. like in your picture, a storm condition. if it doesnt reach the chassis, it wont suck in water. if it does reach the chassis, it can rek you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6PmR2hYW3E
Driving through this was pretty fun.
>>15164763
lol that guy didn't get "washed away." He rode straight off because he's a shit rider. You can see him point the front wheel exactly where he rode off.
Based Scotty is here to answer your question, OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yehz2gUnNe0
>>15164763
QUICK! call an ambulance! that news reporter is having a stroke!
know the signs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvkC4t2d9Ok
>>15164763
I pretty sure he rode straight off on purpose.
>>15166544
Best answer in this thread
>>15162692
>Huge deal or is there some coughing and nothing bad will happen?
During the "coughing" is when you get the cracked head from incompressible water. If you keep running, enough water may even get into the oil and cause that to fill up with water. That's where you add the cracked engine block to the cracked head. It's considered salvage at that point since other parts mated to the block are typically replaced at the same time. You can always find a home mechanic type operation to replace the engine so it doesn't appear on carfax. You then sell the car to someone who doesn't know better since carfax doesn't show the car as being salvaged due to water damage.
