Stuffed My Car Tonight

[R34Liner]

Well your all thinking - he crashed his car......

haha sorry to disappoint but I'm an idiot in another way,

my car has a C.A.I in the bottom left of my front mount and tonight I was at a wedding reception when it started absolutely pissing down rain....most of you would have already guessed what happens next.....C.A.I + Rain = f**ked engine

my car was parked on the top of a 4 story car park and I didn't particularly want to leave it up the top in that kind of weather (paranoid since my insurance excess is 3000 due to me lowering my yearly premium) anyywayyyy i went out and was going down the ramp from the top level to the undercover level bellow when at the bottom of the ramp there was flooding and I didn’t notice since water was falling from every direction of the sky!! and so the front of my car plowed through about 10000000 L of water ...and next thing i know my car is coughing and spluttering and then stalls....took me a few minutes to start it up again but the damage was already done...the car idles....but has savage knocking, indicating most probably 1 or 2 bent valves.....

Anyway thought I would share my night with you all!!

Chuck any ideas on what else might have happened...anyone have any similar experiences?.......I’m taking a wild guess of around 1000 buks to fix??

Anyway give us your thoughts!

[SECURITY]

if i was you i'd be checking that your coil packs and spark plugs arent flooded with water. just get to the plugs/coil packs and make sure they are as dry as possible before re-assembling it all. you'll need to remove any water from your piping as well as your wet air filter before starting the car up again. also make sure your AFM isnt fcuked too.

[GTR-N1]

My thoughts? OUCH!

Totally empathise with you Aron.

[R34Liner]

if i was you i'd be checking that your coil packs and spark plugs arent flooded with water. just get to the plugs/coil packs and make sure they are as dry as possible before re-assembling it all. you'll need to remove any water from your piping as well as your wet air filter before starting the car up again. also make sure your AFM isnt fcuked too.

Thanx man, will do!

[fat-lad]

sue the council for drainage problems lol, i feel for you man, my brother done the same thing a few years ago in flood water, hope it nothing serious!!

[Greekos]

hey its pretty unlikely that you have hudrolocked (how ever you spell it) your motor unless u drove through a half a meter puddle, the water would have to travel through your filter past the afm, the turbo, then intercooler and finally to your engine, and when you motor get enough water in there it bends your conrods, as it been said before in this thread check your electrics and intake piping, a having a couple cylinders missing firing sounds like a very bad knocking.

[R34Liner]

is it possible that water got into one of my cylinders and isn't allowing the spark plug to fire?? hence why ther is knocking noise??? and if i do have a bent con rod or valve or wtvr would i still be able to start the engine??

[SECURITY]

bent rod = really bad knocking, you'll hear a really bad rattle coming from the engine. and it will be REALLY rough on idle as well as loads of blue smoke coming out of your exhaust - thats if it actually idles. if you're getting black smoke out of your exhaust then chances are your spark plugs are flooded. do what i said above if its blowing out black smoke and you should be sweet.

[madbung]

As mentioned before, doubt you've bent a valve from driving through a puddle, especially with a cold engine (not that that would matter).

Dry it out it should be fine.

Btw who told you you have rooted the top end from driving through a puddle?

This whole hyrdo lock thing is getting out of control, the car would stop before you sucked in that amount of water, full stop.

The only way I can see that happening is a massive body of water and the car travelling at such a speed that momentum keeps the rears and crank spinning way after the ignition fails.

[TKR]

dam that sucks sorry to hear ;o hope u sort it out

[DRD-00F]

my night... my back got thrown out being carried upside down into one of the execs bday parties... it seriously frken hurts... hopefully i make compak tomorrow...

[NYTSKY]

I had water get into my AFM once. Engine sounded like it was going to grenade, but after all the water dried everything was fine.

Park the car in a garage for a few days let everything dry out. See what happens.

[evil_weevil]

Ouch!!!! But I thought u had a non turbo?

Check the stuff joe said first, hopefully something minor like that is all it is mate

[R34Liner]

I had water get into my AFM once. Engine sounded like it was going to grenade, but after all the water dried everything was fine.

Park the car in a garage for a few days let everything dry out. See what happens.

yea but do you know if the water actually got into your engine...like i have water in my cams!! and water in the cylinders!!

anyway

i was up till about 4 this morning taking of my throttle body and intake manifold (to get to a Non-turbo coil pack and spark plug bay is a bitch and a half because the intake goes over the coil pack cover.) anyywayy i took all the coil packs out and spark plugs... (they were black) and turned the engine over a few times...lots of shit spat out as expected...then i put her all back together and started it up but the knock is still there.....

now my question is...when i turned the engine over with all the spark plugs out i didn't hear any tapping or metal on metal noises...does this mean that the pistons arnt hitting any valves?? and that the knocking noise is just one of the cylinders not firing??

[Primordial]

damn.. shit situation man

take it to your workshop and get them to take alook at it rather than potentially doing more damage. once you've sorted the electrics as joe suggested any further noise could be fatal

[R34Liner]

just changed the spark plugs...and the noise is still there...i have def bent something....off to the workshop! - god i hope it doesn't cost me to much :blink:

[Sheng]

Yeah thought you had non turbo?

hopefully doesn't cost you a leg and an arm to fix.

[eeiko321]

Well your all thinking - he crashed his car......

haha sorry to disappoint but I'm an idiot in another way,

my car has a C.A.I in the bottom left of my front mount and tonight I was at a wedding reception when it started absolutely pissing down rain....most of you would have already guessed what happens next.....C.A.I + Rain = f**ked engine

my car was parked on the top of a 4 story car park and I didn't particularly want to leave it up the top in that kind of weather (paranoid since my insurance excess is 3000 due to me lowering my yearly premium) anyywayyyy i went out and was going down the ramp from the top level to the undercover level bellow when at the bottom of the ramp there was flooding and I didn't notice since water was falling from every direction of the sky!! and so the front of my car plowed through about 10000000 L of water ...and next thing i know my car is coughing and spluttering and then stalls....took me a few minutes to start it up again but the damage was already done...the car idles....but has savage knocking, indicating most probably 1 or 2 bent valves.....

Anyway thought I would share my night with you all!!

Chuck any ideas on what else might have happened...anyone have any similar experiences?.... ...I'm taking a wild guess of around 1000 buks to fix??

Anyway give us your thoughts!

how many inches of water was there?

[R34Liner]

how many inches of water was there?

8-10 inches - Im guessing tho, because i remember seeing water washed up over the bonnet, meaning that it easily was higher then the front mounts clearance from the ground and when the car stopped i knew in my head exactly what happened...an i freaked so i didn't really go and check.

[eeiko321]

8-10 inches - Im guessing tho, because i remember seeing water washed up over the bonnet, meaning that it easily was higher then the front mounts clearance from the ground and when the car stopped i knew in my head exactly what happened...an i freaked so i didn't really go and check.

sorry if this has been covered in recent posts....i just havent read up...

ok

this is what ill do IF....there is water in the engine.....

1.) remove all spark plugs from the head

2.) dont forget to which ingnition lead goes to what plug.,..if in doubt...mark them

3.) if the plugs are fouled, you can either replace them...or if they are good plugs, you can actually heat them on the stove to make it red hot...to get rid of the carbon. (then give it a clean with some steel wool...then it be good as new)

4.) crank the engine to push all water out of the cylinders...id crank it say...10 sec..give it half a minute then crank it 10 sec again.... then repeating it one more time. (this is just a simple measure that your not gonna f**k up your Start motor...cause its not designed for continuous usage like this..it will burn out)

5.) Open your air box, if you have a concealed one... make sure it is dry from water. if it still is waterlogged.....remove all water. im sure if your car pinged and stalled....it got in through her

6.) if it still does it........id change the oil....it may have gotten in there

and will always disrupt the function of the combustion.

Edited March 15, 2009 by eeiko321