Simple Question
11-15-2003, 12:58 PM
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Simple Question
With cold air intakes, you usually have a bypass valve so that water wont get sucked up into your engine. So, when you turbo your ride.......what if it starts raining cats and dogs while your driving.......water will most likely get sucked into the turbo, right?? well, is this bad or not?? will it ruin the turbo? i know most daily drivers will encounter this so what happens? is it bad or it doesnt mess up anything??
11-15-2003, 01:23 PM
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Re:Simple Question
i've never seen a bypass valve on an induction kit, have you seen one? where is it? what does it look like? Anyway a little water wont do the turo any harm it'll ---- the engine first, but dont put the filter somewhere where its gonna suck up puddles or your car wont like you for it
11-15-2003, 01:30 PM
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Re:Simple Question
how the ---- would u get water in your turbo?
water doesnt come up there unless u drive into a huge puddle and stop...
also if you got a decent filter itll catch most of the water (k&n).
u dont want water hitting your turbo fins. itll eat the blades.. imagine something turning at 100k rpm and it hit water droplets? hello pitting. just dont use a screen..
water doesnt come up there unless u drive into a huge puddle and stop...
also if you got a decent filter itll catch most of the water (k&n).
u dont want water hitting your turbo fins. itll eat the blades.. imagine something turning at 100k rpm and it hit water droplets? hello pitting. just dont use a screen..
11-15-2003, 02:12 PM
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Re:Simple Question
Originally Posted by surfer
i've never seen a bypass valve on an induction kit, have you seen one? where is it? what does it look like? Anyway a little water wont do the turo any harm it'll ---- the engine first, but dont put the filter somewhere where its gonna suck up puddles or your car wont like you for it
11-15-2003, 02:16 PM
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Re:Simple Question
if you're referring to hydrolocking the engine, i'v only seen this from cold air intakes that sit so low to the ground. i'v your turbo inlet is under the hood, unless you spray a hose in your engine bay while the car is running, you'll be aight 
11-15-2003, 02:49 PM
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Re:Simple Question
I thought a bypass valve was a secondary airway that allows air to flow through if the primary gets plugged(water). It could work with a turbo. You could use two of them even. One before the turbo on the intake side and one in the charge pipes before the throttle body. Then your turbo and your motor would be protected as long as you don't drive across a lake or something.
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11-15-2003, 06:11 PM
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11-15-2003, 06:17 PM
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Re:Simple Question
The bypass valve doesn't "catch" the water, it simply allows air in once the resistance at the filter is great enough. It is harder to suck water up the tube than air, and once resistance goes up, the bypass opens allowing air to flow the path of least resistance. By the time water reached the filter on a normal turbo setup it is gonna probably be at the bypass valve too so there really is no point. The only way I would do this is if I had my filter sitting really low with the piping running vertical and the filter being at the bottom instead of running it horizontally from the turbo to the filter., and why would you want to do that? It'd be easier to just move the filter!
