The air filter on the ss is sitting on top of the intake where it works off the hood like ram air. There is the grill in the hood then it's just an open filter right? Well in the rain isn't water going to run up the hood and onto the filter while driving down the road? Eventually wouldn't the filter get saturated and water start going into the intake? Just a thought because I'm looking into buying one for my car.

 

Does anybody know what the black dot on the envelope in the LT1 Tech screen is for it's just on my envelope.

 

The scoop has a couple of baffles forcing the air to go down then up.This removes the water to drain out. -v__^ kinda like that.Air moving from left to rightt

 

Does the water then just sit in the bottom of the tube or what? does it drain or forced to just evaporate.

 

It means you have posted in that thread..

 

It should drain somewhere. GM wouldn't have put it on there if they didn't test it in the elements first. Imagine buying a SS new in 96-97 on a rainy day and killing it before you got it home.

 

haha my dad has very little respect for gm or any american companys for that sake... and he would laugh really hard if he heard a story like that...

yea in my opinion thats why its better for a filter to pick up from under neath and not from on top of meaning


- - - - - - - - <--- air filter
^ air ^ air ^
___water___


,`.',`.'.`,' Rain
\/ air \/ air \/
- - - - - - - - - <---- air filter
___water___

in the second example water would stay in the filter... in the first example the water would drip free of the filter.

but thats why its covered up... also i dont understand why would they put the intake on top of the engine when the simple idea of convection makes it a hai, a lame pricipal of forced induction doesnt apply when the angles of wind are not present

ohh well there should be a gaurd so the water doesnt go in the hood but if the drainage around ur city is as good as these LA basins.... be careful the gutter water doesnt come over the hood, cause it'll probably drown ur car and it probably wont start again.

 

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on my ws6 the water is separated by the baffles before reaching the filter area, then there are 4 drain holes where is drains, then falls into the radiator area. you might find this helpfull:
http://www.ws6zxr.com/showthread.php...highlight=hood

 

UHm, what is all your guys problems...

Both the SS and WS6 hoods come from the factory with rain baffles that are molded in to them. They then have drain holes to allow the water to get out around the air intake. On the WS-6 it drains just infront of the airbox.

Bad design/good design with the air filter on top... well, seeing they made ALL the LS1 cars almost identical to the LT1 WS6 setup, kinda tells you sonething...

The "bad" design on the SS setup is the piping losses for the 360* bend the air has to take as well as the filter box sitting directly ontop of the intake, thus getting "heat-soaked"...

I'd be 1000000000* more worried about the Opti getting soaked then my K&N getting a little wet from some rain...

 

That's really pretty sad.

The hood water baffles work fine just the way they are installed.

 

youve got to admit that if rain could get into the intake due to the hood and air intake design... someone would get fired, let alone make for plenty of laughable stories...

but yea, if i had one of those intakes id be worried around the base of the mt baldy here in cali... the waves of water get pretty big... big enough to go over the hood of my truck, but if that went into the ram air hole it would kill ur car. would it not?

 

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i would think in that situation the air intake would be less of a worry than the distributor. sounds like a boat would be more practical transportation in that area.

 

heh.. it only rains once in a blue moon... but when it does the mountains dont retain any of it and it goes down to the vally

but yea the opti would be of big concern

 

I know to watch the opti thats not a problem i just didn't know if the hood had baffels and how the water stayed out of the filter while driving but now i see thanks alot.