Stillen Generation 3 Ultra Long Tube Intake question
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Stillen Generation 3 Ultra Long Tube Intake question
Hey everyone, I am new here and had a question hopefully someone would be able to answer. I just got a new 09 g37S coupe about a month ago and so far love it. I was looking into changing the intake and have had a hard time deciding on which one. Two of my friends have G35 and both are running the Fujuta short ram intake. However, I have been looking at the Stillen Generation 3 Ultra Long Tube Intake. My only concern is the placement of the intakes. Has anyone experienced or heard of anyone experiencing Hydro-locking? Of course I would never drive through a a huge puddle, but I was concerned with the chance that in heavy rain the filters could get saturated in water and cause hydro-lock. I live in Miami Florida so heavy rain does happen often. This is my only concern with the Generation 3 Ultra Long Tube Intake and if i get it or go with the Fujita or the gen 2 from stillen. Any help you can give will be great.
-Chris
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I doubt you will hydrolock it. It needs to be submerged in water for that to happen. It does come with "sheilds" that help in the rain. You'll have a better chance of hydrolocking an Injen CAI (cold air intake) before the Stillen.
If you are that concerned about water, just get a SRI (short ram intake) like an Injen SRI.
Intakes are basically all the same...
If you are that concerned about water, just get a SRI (short ram intake) like an Injen SRI.
Intakes are basically all the same...
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Hey everyone, I am new here and had a question hopefully someone would be able to answer. I just got a new 09 g37S coupe about a month ago and so far love it. I was looking into changing the intake and have had a hard time deciding on which one. Two of my friends have G35 and both are running the Fujuta short ram intake. However, I have been looking at the Stillen Generation 3 Ultra Long Tube Intake. My only concern is the placement of the intakes. Has anyone experienced or heard of anyone experiencing Hydro-locking? Of course I would never drive through a a huge puddle, but I was concerned with the chance that in heavy rain the filters could get saturated in water and cause hydro-lock. I live in Miami Florida so heavy rain does happen often. This is my only concern with the Generation 3 Ultra Long Tube Intake and if i get it or go with the Fujita or the gen 2 from stillen. Any help you can give will be great.
-Chris
-Chris
Over the past couple months here in SC there has been terrible rain and the shield on the Gen3 works like a charm, the intakes dont even get wet. The shield protects the filters from bugs, rocks, water, pretty much anything that would damage the filter. And then when they get dirty just take them out and wash them.
And YES, they DEFINITELY looks awesome with both Autokits grilles (I've got the Katzu)
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Thanks everyone for your help. I knew about the shield but just didn't know how well it worked. hispeed-lowdrag you say its had no problem for you, so thats good enough for me. Just wanted to make sure and not make a mistake I regret later.
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Yeah man that shield works exactly how it's designed to. I've even had a big SUV driving next to me and we went through a dip where the rain had pooled and the SUV sprayed enough water over my car that I couldnt see out the windshield for a good 2-3 seconds (w/the wipers on full speed as well) and the filters were fine after that so...
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There's no way you'll hydrolock with the Gen 3 the shields make it impossible unless the water is up past your grill. And forget the fugita it has horrible numbers. I remember someone on this forum losing 1whp and gaining 1wtq.
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Stillen Gen 3's !!!
I have the Stillen Gen 3's and the wheather out here in Guam sucks ! It rains almost all the damn time and ocassionally we get tropical storm wheather and when that happens, it rains like a motherfauqer... so far so good ( *knock* on wood ) no hydro locking out here ! Using the stock grill... next mod would be the Autokits grill to make the intakes really stand out ! Good luck my friend ! No regretes with the Stillen Gen 3's here !
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