Water in my engine?!!?

[KevinC]

He must not have any filter, and an intake snorkel in an area were a huge amount of water got tossed up.

Race cars, such as the old F1 cars, ran quite happily in torrential downpours with open velocity stacks. Water doesn't hurt an engine unless you manage to get it to breath basically nothing but solid water.

[Baker]

the car ran a standard aem cold air intake that has a filter and an alleged water bypass thing that obviously doesnt work

[KevinC]

There is something very odd there. Thousands of cars drive through deep puddles every week, and the engines don't hydrolock.

Was he going 80 mph into 3 feet of water? Even then, I am very surprise you could get that much water through an airfilter that quickly. It would have to get the 4 cups through in less than 2 engine rotations - at 2000 rpm that would be 0.060 seconds. Something seems fishy with this story.