guys i've been driving with no hood until i can get a turboII hood. its lightly sprinkling today and i am scared to drive my car in the rain cause i dont want something to short out... its not raining very hard (just sprinkling) and i have to take my car up to get my exhaust made... is it too risky?

 

I say, get some plastic bags, and tape! dunno, I wouldn't do it.

 

OK. everything in your engine bay is weather proof anyways, seeing as there is a giant open hole in the front end for the radiator and what not.

It won't hurt anything other than aerodynamics

 

a gigantic cardboard as your new hood

 

Use a NA hood until you can get a FMIC. Just don't boost hard with it on. Take the money you were going to waist on a t2 hood and buy a intercooler off ebay and fab up some ghetto pvc pipes to make it fit and then take the pipes down to the exhaust shop and have them copy them to aluminum. Or keep it ghetto and leave the pvc.

 

If you use cardboard for a hood, be sure to paint it black.

 

Carbon fiber all the way! LOL.

 

what about the intake sucking up some water? I know water going through the turbo sure wont help it out much.

 

How far is the drive? I say somehow ghetto attach a huge piece of cardboard where u hood should be.

 

Carboard will fold up under the air pressure exerted on a hood. It would just blow it off, and then you'll get a ticket for litering.


And if your engine takes in water it won't hurt it, it will just run like crap until it passes it threw the exhaust. Rotary's don't hydro lock.

 

If this were an NA engine then i would agree with you. But we are talking about a turbo in this case. Water going through a turbo will hurt the turbo.

 

How is a piece of card board going to stop water. And how is water going to get into his turbo?


Water won't make it threw your intake, unless you it is submerged, and then it will just stall.

 

Don't forget, the air filter is in the way

 

yeah, it have to be submerged to get through it, or it have to be raining REALLY HARD, like hurricane, LOL

 

OR.. just dont drive without a hood

 

Sorta/Kinda off topic...

i wanna degrease my engine bay.. i was planning to get like 5 cans of that GUNK Engine Degreaser the foam type.. and spray the whole engine bay down and then hosing it down with a pressure water spray...

would this cause any problems?

 

As I recall, that stuff eats plastic.

 

Gunk? That stuff if REALLY week! And it doesn't eat plastic. It doens't eat anything more than a thing film of grease.


If you want to degrease your engine bay go to target/wal-mart, or some place that sells kitchen cleaning supplys and get oven cleaner. That **** will take off any/everything with nothing more than 20 minutes and a good pressured hose.

But if you aren't ready to paint/polish engine parts don't do it because it eats paint off, and oxidises on aluminum very fast (looks like crap). Also on the last car I used it on (my supra7) it ate alot of the engine bay paint out.

But it still works very good if you plan on repainting it anyways...

 

Explain how.

Lets see... how would rain water get in, anyway? If he has a stock filter, the filter is covered.
If he has a k&N, well, they are oiled. Last time I check, oil and water didn't get along very well. Water that is stuck in the topside cracks of the K&N might get sucked through the filter, and in doing so, atomized instead of going through in full drops.

And last time I checked... the air surrounding us was always fileld with evaporated water...

Time for the bullshit to stop. Water droplets enter the intake stream all the time. The only way for water to be a problem is if the entire intake gets submerged, which CANNOT happen with rain.


Go ahead and run around without a hood on. I'd be most worried about theft and vandalism then water

 

hmm.... worked wonders for me before so i dunno.... i dont wanna paint the engine bay... i just want the engine parts to look clean... caked with grime and stuff... from sometime... so any other liquid?

i might as well go some engine degreaser route...

 

Uhm... cover up your electrionics. IE your coils and your fusepanel. If you don't, your car will skip time and backfire like a sonovabitch.

 

OH! I did a similar thing to my AE86. I used a can of aerosol engine degreaser, with no hood on, and let it sit overnight... forgot to put hood back on, and it was pissing down the rain. My engine bay was clean as hell, but... my car had to sit for 2-3 days before it would start again.

 

Water isn't considered electrically conducted. Go shove your ohmeter into a glass of water, separating the two ends, and tell me what it reads.
Salt water conducts electricity.

The fuse panel also has a cover over it... and the spark plugs wires have these things called boots on the end.

And quick question, how do you make a car skip time? Are flux capacitors now available?

 

He means the car will miss, but the CAS is sealed, so there is no need to worry. And as I have said before nothing needs to be covered up, if you have driven your car in the rain then you engine bay has gotten wet just as if the hood were off. Air flows freely into the front of the engine bay.


This thread is pointless.....

 

Castrol degreaser. I dunno exactly what it's called,but it comes in a purple spray bottle and it claims to 'dissolve grease on contact.' That is NO lie. I degreased an entire engine bay on an FB using that stuff,a wire brush,paper towels,screwdriver and hot water and a cleaning pad.

As for the hood issue...

isn't it illegal to drive without a hood?