is cold air intake harmful to the car in anyway? i think i heard that somewhere. just wanna double check.

 

The only harm is having the cai suck up water if the water level is too high. But that's only if theres like a big flood. So basically it's nothing to worry about.

 

thank you hyper

 

i flooded my engine b/c i sucked up water through my Injen CAI.. but it doesnt happen too often with people.. im thinking about taking it off and going with stock again.. i had to get my block replaced b/c i shot a piston out.. it was a pain in the a** to fix..

 

BustinP..
this quote refers to "hydrolock" which not as insignificant or as hard to do as a lot of people think. The Injen/AEM and many of the other CAIs have a pipe that pulls air in front of the radiator. If you, albeit by accident, drive through standing standing water of significant depth you can and will suck water. This will destory your engine. The AEM has a bypass valve that eliminates this, but it also removes any power gains from the CAI. IMO, if your at risk for hydrolock ie. a daily driver, I would intall a CAI that does not pull air from in front of the radiator. Check out the PRM or K&N. That's just my 2cents (I've researched the hell out of this....check out the thread by Russ on the PRM intake....he explains it 20x better than I could.