I have a 2000 and I added an AEM V2 Intake kit about 4 months ago. Once installed it ran great. The vehicle is parked outside under a fabric cover. Since the very first few days, the vehicle had major starting problems after a rain storm. That is not while driving, but if the car was sitting out in heavy rain... the next day when I wanted to start it, it would not start for many many tries. Clearly the air filter is getting wet. This is NOT because the filter get submerged but because of rain water draining over the top of the car in natural gravity flow.

What can I do? The bypass valve wastes the entire V2 concept.

Also, recently, it won't even turn over after a rain storm unless it sits for days. When I try to start her, it won't but a small puddle of water trickles under the front bumper after a rain storm.

It is becoming a REAL problem and it basically makes my car undrivable.

HELP!

FJahandari
Arlington, VA

 

Did you plug the drain hole above the filter?

 

yup. pop your hood and look along the left side seam area, and you'll see a few holes. one hole drains water directly onto your filter. you should plug this hole

 

You can also make a sheild or buy one that goes over the intake filter to prevent water from dripping on it.

 

Same thing happened to one of my customers with an AEM. After sitting in the rain/snow overnight, he started it a threw a rod through the oil pan. It's in my garage getting a new motor.

 

You have a bit of water sitting in the elbow behind the air filter. Water drips down from up in the engine bay (there is a drain hole up near the bottom left corner of the hood that you need to cover up).

Time to plug that hole, and make an umbrella for your intake filter. Also try parking the car on an incline that points the front of the car downhill, this will make the filter either level, or tilted forward (not allowing water to accumulate inside the tube).

 

Put a piece of electrical tape over the hole that drains onto your filter. Mine has been fine like that for a year, including being parked outside during three hurricanes that each dropped between 8 to 12 inches of rain in 24 hours.

 

Aside from pluggung the hole, this is excellent advice. My guys car was parked uphill when it hydrolocked in his driveway.