Ok so yesterday we had a massive rainstorm and where I had my car parked the water got up to nearly the bottom of my door, before I noticed how fast the water was rising (only took about 15 mins to get that high) when I noticed I backed it out and actually had to go through some deeper water to get out of that parking lot, I took it easy driving home and then this morning on my way to work it started up fine but when I starting reving it up to get on the highway it would pause for a second then pull, then pause, then pull repeatedly. It seemed to be ok from my way home from work after sitting for 9 hours . Could this simply be because my air filter got wet (AEM cai) so the air wasn't flowing properly, or possibly small amounts of water getting into the engine or is there something more major I should be worried about.

Thanks,

 

Well the MAF sensor should dry out and otherwise if the stock air filter case was on it should have been ok, but if you are really worried it wouldn't hurt to do an oil change asap.

 

Pull your spark plugs out and crank the car over. If there is any water in there it will shoot out. Then change your oil ASAP.

I doubt there is much if any water in there. If you sucked up a lot you would have torn apart the bottom end.

 

Is it possible that the filter was just damp so was impeding airflow at higher RPM?

 

Did you have a dry charger on it, you know the little cover thing that goes over the filter to keep it dry(my K&N came with one)?

 

why chang the oil the water went into the combustion chamber and got burnt and sent out of the exhaust the only way it would need an oil change is if he drove it under water

dry out your filter

john

 

its just your filter mine did it when i recharged my air filter, i had to much oil on and like a mile down the road i pulld over, turned it off then bakc on and it was fine but sluggish, a week later its perfect, more like 2 days

 

FYI, Water doesn't "Burn" It turns to vapor.

Another FYI, Water can't be compressed, therefore when the piston approaches the top of it's stroke, the water has nowhere to go and that's how things get broken.

 

How deep did you go? Might want to change all your fluids. Including the tranny fluid.