you owe us final pics!

 

OK, the sequel is up! Go to:

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...029#post504029

-J-

 

should of asked about water getting into the cai from the hood scoop

 

looks great jay!

 

Coming from a professional automotive artist, that's an especially welcome compliment! We need to make the carbon fiber hood on your Cavi functional next!

-J-

 

Unless you go swimming with your car you have nothing to worry about. The water would have to come over the hood in a wave.

To be extra safe simply cut a piece of thin tin metal to the length of the cone filter and bend it to form around the top 1/3 of the filter and secure it into place with a plastic wire tie or two to act as a splash shield. Air will still flow into the engine far better than the stock setup. In the odd and very rare case that you would submarine your car this would prevent the water direct flow into the filter meaning that you would have to force enough water into the scoop to fill the air box up before it would cuase hydrolock. And for even extra cuation you could add a couple extra SMALL holes for drainage to the bottom.

In heavy rain my Camaro with functional hood scoop and no filter ran fine while my 2.0 SC with cold air intake will occasionally sputter with lots of road spray. Hood scoops are real good and safe way to go as far as rain is concerned, and as far as snow that someone menssioned before. Get a screen to go across the scoop to keep excess out and if it does plug shut this air box will resort to drawing air from the fender like a bypass valve, thus the engine will continue to run as this is not a perfectly sealed application.

Has my vote for a safer alternative to low mounted cold air system in the rain. Just wish the 2.0 had an option without going low with the filter.

 

couldn't water get into the gmpp intake since it doesn't give it a perfect seal around the hood and water can get under the hood during a rain storm or what not?

 

Mine seals almost perfectly since I built an additional gasket on the hood itself. That said, some water can get in through the scoop, but it's not enough to cause any problems (I've driven this set-up in some really bad downpours with no ill effects). As previously stated, it takes a lot of water to hydraulic lock an engine, generally sucking up a puddle from a low-mounted CAI. That's why I prefer a through-the-hood CAI.

 

Think of all the cars driving around with exposed cone filters under the hood; they seem to do OK in the rain. The GM intake has the added protection of the box around it so its probably less vulnerable than the exposed cones.

 

if i install this, do i have to put a scoop on the hood or can i just leave it stock?

 

You can leave it stock.

 

Have you ever heard or Water injection, It will not harm the engine if a little water burns through the engine. In fact i have been told by old timers that it in fact cleams the valves a little though i don't know this for sure it have no reason not to believe this.

I have a cold air intake on my car with only occasionally it with hit a small sputter in the rain and it has to be really bad out. The only reason it sputters ever so slightly is the filter becomes saturated with the road mist cuasing poor flow quality.

 

does the flex coupler go over the lip on the throttle body adapter or is it just suppose to go up to the lip on the throttle body?

 

The flex adapter must go over the throttle body adapter far enough so that the clamp is clamping the flex adapter down on the throttle body adapter. Same for the other end, where the flex adapter goes over the polished tube. The trick is to make sure you get the flex adapter "centered" so that it is well engaged on both parts. That's why I actually clamped it to the polished tube first.

 

i'm debating on installing a gmpp intake or injen do youi have to cut anything to install the injen intake mine a lease so nits kinda matters and is injen a lt better than the gmpp intake

 

I don't think you can mod a lease vehicle....

Injen Intake is different from the GMPP as it's a bottom breather intake.