everything should be ok once it dries out. .. .

If the CAI actually sucked enough water into your engine (not just moisture, actual water) then you can get something called Hydrolock, where water goes into the cylinder and the piston tries to compress the water like it was air/fuel...  This can bend/snap rods and seriously fuck up your day.

Let's hope it all dries out and you're cool.

You might want to get some isopropyl alcohol to wash the MAF sensor...  Just a thought.

Ahh gotcha.  THe added water creates a higher compression ratio, correct?  THe weird part is it ran fine all the way home.  At Duff's suggestion I am going to take the tube out for the winter and run the filter straight off the MAF.

I would guess around 200 hp.  I am not going to do anything extravagent to this car, as I need it to be mt reliable daily. 

You would think the head gasket wouldblow before rods bent. 

it's really not something called hydrolock....it is hydrolock.

you can't compress water. if you fill up the cylinders, it wont compress, being as though the engine is turning, even 900 rpms (or whatever idle is), it's still fast enough IF the cylinder is full, you'll bend a rod.

here's the thing though...chances of you filling it at idle are slim.

1) the throttle plate is closed. think of how small that opening is when it's shut, you can barely see light through it.

2) by the time ANY water hits the cylinder, it's going to pretty much put out the spark...might take a revolution or two before it does, but it will. doesn't take much, then the engine shuts off, preventing any more vacuum from pulling in water.

when i worked at VW (back in 2000), there was a MK3 VR that came in. RO stated "customer ran through puddle at 34mph, then car died."....that was it. the tech pulled the intake manifold off and it was full...pulled the head off, all the cylinders full....so think about that. 35mph, we'll say 3rd gear (woman driver, she was probably in fucking second, ahhaha...jokes people)...that's what, 3000rpm....ish. ? that's pretty much what it would take to fill it.

the advantage you have is you have turbo piping to go through...idle speeds, all that piping...it's gonna find it's low spot (the intercooler) and want to stay there, until it fills up...giving you the advantage over an NA car that you'll come out just fine from it, at low RPMs.

apparently AEM sells some CAI peice that actually prevents hydrolock and any water getting sucked into the intake...how it works, i have no clue. from what i've heard, it's a foam connector that goes in mid intake pipe, it either lets water fall out of the intake when it gets sucked up, or provides an alternative air intake when water hits the filter (which would require more vacuum to actually suck it up, since it's kinda heavy)

i've typed enough...my back hurts. camping chairs make horrible computer chairs....

noises are nice but running is better

DID U change your oil? just wodierng if u got enough water in the mtoro to end up w/ some in the oil. thats never good.