Hi, Guest
Any short ram .. where it be the volant, iceman, ebay kinds et al ... doesnt need to be removed... you wont have any problems, infact its basically impossible for anything to go wrong with those kind of intakes as long as your filter is in proper condition.
Aem / Bomz intakes that goto the front of the car I would either A. Remove them if your not a bigtime car guy who likes to get dirty.... or B. Get under the car alot and check.
If their oiled up enough youll never get hydro lock from normal conditions, and this word is used way way too frequently because it almost never happens. Even when people think its happens its usually something else... Ive seen people feed straight water into their intake to clean their engines... So youd have to put quite a bit ...
The problem with the cai's though is that what happens if your not careful is that underneat the fender wall / bumper / that area can collect alot of snow and solidify to an extent. This in turn keeps filling up the area until the filter itself is surrounded with packed in ice/snow.
What then happens is that it plays with your air fuel alot because eventually if you leave it long enough itll get to the point where its getting in 50% and even less of the air it wants.
A story...
A honda friend came to my house last year complaining is car was sluggish and wouldnt go into Vtec... I took it for a drive and noticed something was wrong right away because there was little to no throttle response. I opened the hood and noticed the aem intake... followed it down and in hondas its in almost a plastic box the way the fender liners / bumper liners work..... Anyways I jacked the car and right away I showed him his problem... Snow had been packed into this box SO HARD that there was a layer of inch thick ice that had formed over most of his filter and the rest of the box was packed! in snow.
I took it all apart to realize that the ice had probably melted / refroze 100 times and warped his filter and split it at a certain point... Who knows how much ice/snow/water got sucked up ... but his engine was perfectly fine. I took the filter to the sink and ran hot water on it and let it defraw... we then went to his house to get the stock intake and installed that up. Car was perfectly fine after that.
Aem / Bomz intakes that goto the front of the car I would either A. Remove them if your not a bigtime car guy who likes to get dirty.... or B. Get under the car alot and check.
If their oiled up enough youll never get hydro lock from normal conditions, and this word is used way way too frequently because it almost never happens. Even when people think its happens its usually something else... Ive seen people feed straight water into their intake to clean their engines... So youd have to put quite a bit ...
The problem with the cai's though is that what happens if your not careful is that underneat the fender wall / bumper / that area can collect alot of snow and solidify to an extent. This in turn keeps filling up the area until the filter itself is surrounded with packed in ice/snow.
What then happens is that it plays with your air fuel alot because eventually if you leave it long enough itll get to the point where its getting in 50% and even less of the air it wants.
A story...
A honda friend came to my house last year complaining is car was sluggish and wouldnt go into Vtec... I took it for a drive and noticed something was wrong right away because there was little to no throttle response. I opened the hood and noticed the aem intake... followed it down and in hondas its in almost a plastic box the way the fender liners / bumper liners work..... Anyways I jacked the car and right away I showed him his problem... Snow had been packed into this box SO HARD that there was a layer of inch thick ice that had formed over most of his filter and the rest of the box was packed! in snow.
I took it all apart to realize that the ice had probably melted / refroze 100 times and warped his filter and split it at a certain point... Who knows how much ice/snow/water got sucked up ... but his engine was perfectly fine. I took the filter to the sink and ran hot water on it and let it defraw... we then went to his house to get the stock intake and installed that up. Car was perfectly fine after that.
Dan, Your friendly neighbourhood asshole. 
I do installs and build FG stuff, pm me if you need help with anything. Im cheap.
I do installs and build FG stuff, pm me if you need help with anything. Im cheap.