To all of those afraid of hydro-lock with an intake
09-21-2005, 12:12 PM
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09-21-2005, 12:27 PM
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may not be that bad(other than bad flywheel or starter teeth); i see water in smallblocks all the time(marine mech.)sometimes you get lucky and can pull the plugs while turning over the pump the water out, the key is to get to them quickly before the rings rust, all the jet-ski's have a 'blow-off' valve for the cyl for this problem
09-21-2005, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe_G
I'd sure like to hear more about this bypass valve - I went to Breathless' shop and asked them about this and they told me just don't drive in water! Easier said than done here in hurricane alley.
Do you have a link?
Do you have a link?
same kind of thing used in boats and jetskis....just mod it to work w/your cai.
09-21-2005, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by itsmeek
http://www.hirevimports.com/zoomprod.php?id=AEM20-402sb
same kind of thing used in boats and jetskis....just mod it to work w/your cai.
same kind of thing used in boats and jetskis....just mod it to work w/your cai.
09-21-2005, 03:55 PM
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If you go thrashing through 6-7 in of standing water is a stock intake you stand a great chance of hydrolocking. The Zone reps I have talked to say the vast majority of the hydro lock problems are stock intakes--yes they look to see if it was a vararam at one time or the shroud is cut...
09-21-2005, 04:14 PM
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That sucks a big one........literally. I hope you didn't damage the internals. And thanks for giving us all the warning about this problem.
I think they need to change the name from the Callaway Honker to the Callaway HOOVER.
I think they need to change the name from the Callaway Honker to the Callaway HOOVER.
09-21-2005, 04:54 PM
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Hope it turns out not to be too bad.
Hopefully your wife will be too scared to ever even think of driving YOUR vette.
I have over 40K with my Haltech Trap and I drive it ALL the time no matter how hard it rains...and last year in So Cal it RAINED!!!!
I do cover my Z06 screens with duct tape so no water can directly splash on the filter head which sits behind the front licence area. I drive slow thru puddles and my car is low. I also drive easy...low rpm...so not to create unneccessary SUCKING
DH
Hopefully your wife will be too scared to ever even think of driving YOUR vette.
I have over 40K with my Haltech Trap and I drive it ALL the time no matter how hard it rains...and last year in So Cal it RAINED!!!!
I do cover my Z06 screens with duct tape so no water can directly splash on the filter head which sits behind the front licence area. I drive slow thru puddles and my car is low. I also drive easy...low rpm...so not to create unneccessary SUCKING
DH
09-21-2005, 05:34 PM
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Have a Donaldson with a cutout and hydrolocked my engine last year. Ended up gettig a Z06 engine, new heads, and cam out of it...so I guess you could say I came out ahead! 
Good luck with the repairs. The hardest part was waiting to get all the work done.
Matt
Good luck with the repairs. The hardest part was waiting to get all the work done.
Matt
09-21-2005, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by sxe60
Hopefully, she wasn't going very fast and it didn't bend any rods. Pull the plugs and see if it will spin freely. Make sure the intake is dry. Good LucK.
As soon as possible!!!!
09-21-2005, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Richie Carbone
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Now you can blame her for you having to buy a 427 C5R.
Good luck.
Now you can blame her for you having to buy a 427 C5R.
Good luck.
Either way, thanks to all for the idea of pulling the plugs. I should have thought of that myself.... I guess I was "cought up in the moment"
And Yes, she is much more upset about this than I am.
As far as not letting her drive..... Well, she is the same wife that OK'ed me buying a second vette, so I guess she had a "mulligan" stored up.
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09-21-2005, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Fozzy_Bear
Well, I have had the Callaway Honker installed for a few weeks and tonight my wife decides she was going to borrow the vette to go to the gym while I have her sedan at Home Depot getting stuff for the house. It's the first time she has ever borrowed it - we have only had it 60 days.
While she was there it started to rain heavily and one of the intersections on the way home had a dip with about 6-7 inches of water. Well, she didn't know any better and she went into the intersection.
Bulrp.
Then a horrible screatching sound when she tried to start it.
So out came the cell phone and I went to pick her up (in a pouring rain).
When I go there, some neighbors were helping her push it out of the intersection. I walked up and she said, " it just makes a screatching sound" and before I could stop her she turned te key again and I heard the starter motor gear shread.
I'm figuring, "Scratch one LS-1."
I had it towed to a friends house (where we will have a better look in his garage tomorrow)
But I digress. The point is; It IS easy to hydro-lock your motor with a "bottom-feeder" intake. I had heard about it, but I figured, I'd just drive my jeep if it was going to be raining heavy. I just hadn't got around to telling the wife yet.
While she was there it started to rain heavily and one of the intersections on the way home had a dip with about 6-7 inches of water. Well, she didn't know any better and she went into the intersection.
Bulrp.
Then a horrible screatching sound when she tried to start it.
So out came the cell phone and I went to pick her up (in a pouring rain).
When I go there, some neighbors were helping her push it out of the intersection. I walked up and she said, " it just makes a screatching sound" and before I could stop her she turned te key again and I heard the starter motor gear shread.
I'm figuring, "Scratch one LS-1."
I had it towed to a friends house (where we will have a better look in his garage tomorrow)
But I digress. The point is; It IS easy to hydro-lock your motor with a "bottom-feeder" intake. I had heard about it, but I figured, I'd just drive my jeep if it was going to be raining heavy. I just hadn't got around to telling the wife yet.
Sucks... But seriously... Hydrolock is not a common event. The odds are like getting hit by lightning..You have a better odds of Crashing your vette or being crashed into than having a hydrolock...But that does not stop folks from driving...
It's a chance you take...
I'd need to Bury my complete nose to fill my Vararam with water....
09-21-2005, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Fozzy_Bear
Well, I have had the Callaway Honker installed for a few weeks and tonight my wife decides she was going to borrow the vette to go to the gym while I have her sedan at Home Depot getting stuff for the house. It's the first time she has ever borrowed it - we have only had it 60 days.
While she was there it started to rain heavily and one of the intersections on the way home had a dip with about 6-7 inches of water. Well, she didn't know any better and she went into the intersection.
Bulrp.
Then a horrible screatching sound when she tried to start it.
So out came the cell phone and I went to pick her up (in a pouring rain).
When I go there, some neighbors were helping her push it out of the intersection. I walked up and she said, " it just makes a screatching sound" and before I could stop her she turned te key again and I heard the starter motor gear shread.
I'm figuring, "Scratch one LS-1."
I had it towed to a friends house (where we will have a better look in his garage tomorrow)
But I digress. The point is; It IS easy to hydro-lock your motor with a "bottom-feeder" intake. I had heard about it, but I figured, I'd just drive my jeep if it was going to be raining heavy. I just hadn't got around to telling the wife yet.
While she was there it started to rain heavily and one of the intersections on the way home had a dip with about 6-7 inches of water. Well, she didn't know any better and she went into the intersection.
Bulrp.
Then a horrible screatching sound when she tried to start it.
So out came the cell phone and I went to pick her up (in a pouring rain).
When I go there, some neighbors were helping her push it out of the intersection. I walked up and she said, " it just makes a screatching sound" and before I could stop her she turned te key again and I heard the starter motor gear shread.
I'm figuring, "Scratch one LS-1."
I had it towed to a friends house (where we will have a better look in his garage tomorrow)
But I digress. The point is; It IS easy to hydro-lock your motor with a "bottom-feeder" intake. I had heard about it, but I figured, I'd just drive my jeep if it was going to be raining heavy. I just hadn't got around to telling the wife yet.
Man, I am so sorry to hear that. I wish you all the best with the repairs.
09-21-2005, 09:29 PM
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The odds are long but it's easy enough to do. I hydro locked a crown vic squad car in about 6 to 8 inches of water once and it wasnt easy but I did it, so I imagine a vette is much easier.
My wife is "allowed" to drive my vette but since I have a clutch thats a bit stiffer than stock and an exhaust that sounds like NASCAR when your going thru the gears she usually (99%) opts for her Tahoe.
My wife is "allowed" to drive my vette but since I have a clutch thats a bit stiffer than stock and an exhaust that sounds like NASCAR when your going thru the gears she usually (99%) opts for her Tahoe.
09-22-2005, 07:55 AM
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has anyone else noticed that most of the posts in reply to this have to do w/guys blackballing their wives from driving their cars.
hahahahahaha....i'm roflmao.
hahahahahaha....i'm roflmao.
09-22-2005, 09:13 AM
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PUt stock radiator shroud in...Stock Air filter...
09-22-2005, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by itsmeek
has anyone else noticed that most of the posts in reply to this have to do w/guys blackballing their wives from driving their cars.
hahahahahaha....i'm roflmao.
hahahahahaha....i'm roflmao.
I have, and I'm thinking that my wife drives my Vette whenever she wants (I don't care) . The guy should be happy that some other idiot did not plow into the car, engine work is easier to get right than body work.
427 time
09-22-2005, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Heretic
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The guy should be happy that some other idiot did not plow into the car
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The guy should be happy that some other idiot did not plow into the car
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But even body dammage would not have been THAT bad.
Nodbody was harmed. Nor was anything in my llist of my top 10 priorities in life.
Sure, the motor in one of my corvettes was dammaged. Sure, it was even my nicest one. But hey, lets keep this in perspective.
As a few people have said, it might just be a chance to upgrade anyway.