Engine AEM Air ByPass Valves

AEM Air ByPass Valves

Whats your take on these things, are they worth the fourty bucks?

you can simply make one by buying some 5/8 rubber hose and 2 mini air filters

put the new hose on the front breather of the engine, and put a filter in it, be sure to secure the filter XP

and in the old hose leading to the breather of the engine put the other filter and put it somewhere near the battery, I'm sure it'll do the same and be much cheaper...

I got the idea from Vamp's DIYs ^^;;

no that will just just crancase vent gasses out of the intake, whereas this valve is supposed to keep the engine from hydrolocking in case you submerge you intake.

you don't seen to get me

when the other filter is submerged in water you will atleast but able to keep the car on and keep the engine running until you get out of the puddle

and that went went the gases out of the crancase... that's what the PCV valve is for

right you will be able to keep it runnig and have have the manifold vacuum suck that puddle dry therfoe hydrolocking your engine and screweing you over, and im not worrid about the gasses that has nothing to do with this at all

What Saber is saying is that the air will be sucked in from the other small filters much easier than water will be sucked in from your main filter..

cherrio

http://sportcompactcarweb.com/tech/0104scc_tested/

$40 just to lose 3-4hp.. hellll no. Just convert it to a short ram when it starts raining.

I think that article put it best...

There is a very cheap solution to avoid hydrolock: drive carefully. Costs you $0 last time I checked, and doesn't make you lose horsepower.

You also need to consider that some CAIs are too short for this BPV to actually work, and water will get sucked up your engine anyway. This test used effectively a very long CAI, so their margin of error was a lot greater than yours will.

There have been reports of the styrofoam breaking off and getting sucked through the throttle body. I can assure you that pretty things do not ensue.

Hm, my area where I live, it floods a lot during the rainy season, so if I have a CAI (which I avoided by installing a SRI instead), I'd definitely get it...that is, if it does what's intended.

Keep in mind I don't have experience with CAIs, only how they work and stuff.

oh boy, you dont want to get that feeling man.
i've experience a CAI on a rainy day, not fun. scare as hell to step on the gas