[sofire70]

Well I was driving in the rain last night. Never happened before to me until i put my new bumper on. It pretty much leaves the AEM CAI air filter in plain sight (which i didnt realize till now). So I was guessing that since i was driving in the rain, the rain was comming through the hole and pretty much soaking down my exhaust. Now i was just cruising down the road to get to Wal-mart and engine just all of a sudden bogs down and shuts off. So i put on my 4-ways and pull into a parking lot. I wait a little bit while i'm freaking out in the pouring rain.















So i start up my car and a bit of white smoke/steam come out of my exhaust which didn't calm my nerves at all. When i said i was cruising i was taching at about 2200 RPM. So i get to Wal-mart and buy poster board and pretty much box off my filter. So I'm like trying to get home and if i took it up to 3000RPM it would start to bog again. So i keep it at around 2k PRM pretty much the whole way home. So anyways i go out today and my car drives and runs pretty ok and I take it down the road and go to tach out once and the engine felt really weak like it wanted to tach off at 4k RPM. So i try it again and when i hit 4k RPM again the car pulls down to about 3750 RPM and sounds like a backfire and then lets loose to about 5k RPM















So I let the engine vent by pulling out the spark plugs and also spraying a little WD-40 in the chamber. I started up and reved it and it would seem to tach out at 5k RPM instead of redline...































After my elaborate story. It is possible that I had a little but of sitting water in there this morning? If so i took out the spark plugs and sprayed some WD-40 and let it vent for a little bit. And is it still possible that I might have bend a connecting rod or did some minor/major damage to my engine?















To add after first answer? what about it only taching at 5k RPM when it would normally tach at 6k RPM?? Think a sensor when bad in the process?

[Avacali]

If you hydro locked your engine it would not run, plain and simple. You would have to take it apart and clean it out if you did; so you can rule that out. It is probably fine, run some Seafoam through the intake vacuum lines and that should do it.