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I have seen this question posted many times on other forums and know someone will ask it here so I figured maybe this would help any of you worry about this topic.Everyone seems to be worried about sucking water into there engine. why?? Really explain this to me because the only way you could hurt your engine from sucking up water into the intake is if you drive your car through water that to deep to be driving through in the first place. What I mean is you'd have to totally submerge your air filter at the bottom of your CAI for your engine to become hydro locked. Hydrolock is where there is water in a cylinder and the piston trys to come up to top dead center in the cylinder and can't because it can't compress water. You then have to take your spark plugs out and crank the engine to blow all the water out. Reinstall the plugs and you should be fine.A CAI will not suck up enough water even in a rain storm unless you totally sumerge your filter. This is kinda off of autos but in WWII fighter aircraft that would fly through a thunder cloud full of rain and moisture and gained around 20 to 25 % in HP. The intake for these planes are right out in front where everything can be sucked in. The cooling effect of the water once it entered the combustion chamber actually helped increase output, and helped to control knock. I know this is a aircraft but the same kinda applys for autos.My car runs better when it rains and I have a CAI that sucks right in front of the drivers side tire and is about 8" from the ground. I have never had my engine even miss while driving in the rain and have driven through 6" of standing water (Very slowly) with no problems.Short rams are crap. It's all ways better to be sucking in cooler outside air than the hot under hood air.Here is the link to my custom CAI if anyone is interested. It only cost me around $80 to $90 including fliter to make and I get great performance out of it.http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=178