so im driving home yesterday and it starts pouring.. not good when your cold air intake is about 4 inches off the ground.. so just as i suspect i hear a small backfire and the car shuts off.. i push it into a parking lot and wait a long time then try to turn it back over.. after a few tries it starts but its idling high.. i get home and it seems to be fine.. what do you think happened? (i know water got in the intake but what do you think happened to the engine since it is still running? perhaps the MAF shut it off??)

 

if the MAF gets wet itll shut off the car. hooray SD.

 

well now the car wont start at all. i was driving in sunny weather today doing about 45 mph and the car just stalled and wont start up again its at the shop hopefully its not bad

 

Cold air intakes are for Hondas Get some ram air!

 

I think what you got is lucky...

 

you might have got water into your cyclinders, not likely but a
possiblity. take out all your plugs and try to crank it over, if water
shoots out then your problem is found

 

another thing is maybe your opti got soaked

 

im guessing opti.. its either not getting any spark or its not getting any fuel pressure... i dont know why it would run fine for 24 hours after the rain and then all of the sudden just stall

 

+1

 

if the opti got soaked tho why would it take 24 hours to finally crap out? wouldnt it have been done the second it got soaked?