I hear you might have to worry about hydro-seizing your engine with the SSRA kit. I need a post from some owners, who have driven their SSRA equipped Z28's through fairly heavy rain? Is this something I really need to be concerned about? Or merely a disclaimer for someone who might drive their ls1 through a deep puddle? If it is a concern....what do I need to do if I get one to make sure this doesnt happen?

 

you'd have to go through a prety deep puddle. the scoop sits high enough that you can go over most parking lot blocks without scrapping, so that would mean you'd need to hit a puddle about 6" deep at full speed. on top of that, there is space around the hood latch support (i think that's what it is) in which the two pieces of the kit fit together where there is space. so it's not a "completly" sealed scoop. i think you'd need some hellacious rain to do any damage.

i'm sure it could happen, and probably has...maybe 5 times of the thousands of people running the kit and all the rain storms encountered...

i live in south florida...home of heavy rain and puddles...and i'm not worried, i'm just caustious in parking lots and in areas that may collect alot of water.

there are pics of my unit installed on the car, from the front view and looking up i think from a mechanics lift. they are on my web page if you wanna see what it looks like installed.

 

I DO NOT have my SSRA installed yet, however I have a friend that does, and he has driven his car through heavy rain, and the bottom of his air filter was not even wet.

If you live in a wet state, and you know it is going to rain, and you are concerned, you could take a small piece of cardboard, and install it under your air filter where the SSRA intake is, block it off, and let the engine suck air through the front of the airbox.

JMHO

SteveC

 

As I understand it the SSRA hangs lower and is more effecient than the FTRA ... and about once or twice a year you'll see someone post either here, LS1.com or on LS1tech about hydrolocking with an FTRA ...

And there is no ryhme or reason ... it's happend to people hitting large unforseen puddles and to a guy going slowly through water that "barely reached the top of his shoes" ...

So no one can give you assurances that it won't happen or the odds so astronomical that you don't need to worry ... there are not thousands of them installed ... I doubt there is more than five thousand of them installed in the entire country between the SSRA, FTRA, SLP CAI and Whisper CAI ...

So if you take on face value of the numbers and reduce it to the miles driven in the rain - with no precautions - combined with, say 1.5 incidents a year, then the risk is probably in reality pretty high ... bottom line it does happen and you should be concerned.

 

conscious of it yes

worried about it...NO

if you worry about all those little possibilities you will go insane.

while you're at it, why not worry about someone kicking up a stone, it getting scooped up by the RA and piercing the air filter and getting sucked into your engine. probably same odds.

 

I would not want to look at an engine that had that happened to it. Good lord.