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Old 08-26-2003, 07:53 PM
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i've noticed a lot of these threads lately. maybe someone around the tampa area is going around fuckin w/ peoples cars so they don't start
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Old 08-26-2003, 08:28 PM
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Old 08-27-2003, 04:01 PM
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Originally posted by MattC
i've noticed a lot of these threads lately. maybe someone around the tampa area is going around fuckin w/ peoples cars so they don't start

From working at a Honda/Acura dealership for over 3 years or so, cars with 10-12 years old tend to have all the same systoms.

Most of the time are the iginition system, such as coils and ignitors that will go bad. Secondly are main relay that operates the fuel pump system that goes bad. Thrid are flooded cars with AEM cold-air intakes with those cheesy so-called water by-pass valves (we have 2 GSR integras right now, in our shop with bent rods that suck up water). Other times are flooded cars with wet-ECUs (2 of them right now as well). Also ignition switches go bad often,very very common, just imgaine how many times it has turn over for you for those years. Or the summer heat kills battery as well. Then there are those who don't maintain there cars either a foul plug or those with cheap APC wires.

Fuel pump is a very rare part that goes bad, which is suprising in a way.

Anyways, figure I would fill in.
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i finally got my parts, it may actually run again!
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Unhappy hydrolock

I just put an AEM CAI on my '00 GSR with the bypass valve. Now I'm worried with all this rain. Before Bert-o's comments I felt pretty safe.
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Originally posted by jimc93si
I just put an AEM CAI on my '00 GSR with the bypass valve. Now I'm worried with all this rain. Before Bert-o's comments I felt pretty safe.
don't do it i've seen so many honda's get hydrolocked w/ the aem cai. those by-pass valves are good in theory but dont' work like they do in the theory.
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We just had two preludes come into the Honda Service Center. Both had CIA, one sent three rods through the block and the other got lucky, we had to suck the water out of the engine.
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Anyone want to buy a slightly used AEM CAI w/ bypass valve? I think I'm going to put the OEM intake back on. There didn't seem to be that much difference with the CAI anyway, at least not as noticeable as a short ram on my 93Si.



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