Well, I was a dumbass and I drove through what seemed to be a barely flooded street and I hyrolocked the engine in my S2000! Steve and I were at race related tuning his VAFC on the dyno. We were there a couple of hours, meanwhile (Saturday) it was a freakin' monsoon outside raining hard nonstop! As we were leaving we drove away and the street was flooded. It didn't seem too deep!( 10-12 inches) as other cars passed right through without any problem. Well I'm almost all the way through and my car stalled. It wouldn't re-start or even crank over. I let it sit a few hours then pulled all the plugs and tried to turn it over.......nothing but click, click! I put a wrench on the crank and it was totally seized up! I'm thinking I don't have a low lying cold air intake, how could this happen? I called my insurance company but they close early on Saturday and are closed on Sunday! I guess on Monday I'll figure out how much damage is done. I searched the internet and supposedly the S2000 with it's super high compression only needs one ounce of water to hydrolock the engine. When the piston moves up to top dead center to compress, water won't compress, even very little water and some other part of the engine breaks as a result. Any way you look at it it just sucks ass! The S2000 rules when it's dry but it sucks in the wet, literally!

 

That whole day pretty much sucked all around! We had plans to go hang out later with jvrabel, tidal ect. but the rain phucked everything up! I don't know how one of us got out of there and the other didn't? I got my fingers crossed that it is something simple and we are just getting all worked up over nothing. If it is something serious then I would really be re-thinking the AEM/4IG style intakes. Troy's intake not something that looks susceptible to hydrolock. And why one of us didn't just think to carpool I will never know! Anyways, we will have to wait and see what Honda says it is..

 

Man, sorry to hear that bro...

 

Thanx for everybody's support, I'll keep you updated!

 

Damn Troy, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the damage is minor. Keep us updated. Best of luck to ya.

-Eric

 

Look at all the water that drained off my car after I pulled in and dropped the top! It was freaking pouring out. From now on if I ever think the puddle ahead may be deep I am making a U-turn.

 

Troy, sorry to hear this. What kind of intake do you have? Does it reside in the engine bay? I have the AEM and the bypass valve came in real handy a month or so ago on Kennedy. I'm just trying to figure out what happened if you have an engine bay intake unless the water was over the hood. Best of luck with the diagnosis and repairs.

 

Stock! I think the road I was driving on was in the Bermuda Triangle and it magically sucked up just enough water to phuck up the engine.

 

Wow! That sucks. Don't know what else to say but I hope it is not as bad as it sounds.

 

Hey Troy,
I hope al is well, I 've only gotten caught in the rain once and I don't like it.

my little puppy is warm and cozy in the garage.