stalled in mass rain storm!!!!!

boost fiend

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ok, yesterday, my fiancee was trying to drive home in a really bad rain storm. it rained somthing like 12" here in just a short time!!! anyhow, im waiting for her to come home so i can make a beer run and i get a call. she stalled in a puddle!!!

anyhow she makes it home thinking that she broke the car and the engine is shot. i proceed to take it around the block to find that you have to shift by 2k rpm, or the engine seems to "stop" (no reving sound, no power, boost gauge flickers between vac and 5 psi just from touching the gas) but never dies!! open the i/c pipes and drain aprox 1.5 gal of water out of the system!!!

on the way to work today half way there its sitll stumbles but then out of no where it fine!!! more power than before!!! almost seems like i steam cleaned the inside of the engine for free and did no damage at all!!!

call it luck, but someone was looking out for me, and im not a very religous person.

is did throw the afm code (31), but after is started to run fine and i cleard the codes it went away. anyone think i should still look into a diffrent afm electronic assembly???
 

OneJArpus

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i would be worried about the internals of the motor being water did touch it. Even if it did burn it out and its running i'd open it up to see if there is more water or if it will rust in time. But thats just me :) GOod stuff man. Good thing it didn't die out because then that = more water sitting on top of the pistons.
 

Mr.PFloyd

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TaSe said:
i would be worried about the internals of the motor being water did touch it. Even if it did burn it out and its running i'd open it up to see if there is more water or if it will rust in time. But thats just me :) GOod stuff man. Good thing it didn't die out because then that = more water sitting on top of the pistons.
i reamaber someoen sayign spraying a mist into you intake would clean the carbon buildup inside the motor iirc.
 

starscream5000

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I would def change the oil in that thing pronto. You are very lucky to not have killed the engine for good, most cars would have kicked the can as soon as that happend.
I would also check the intercooler and piping for holes or leaks, water shouldn't have gotten into that engine unless that was some hella deep water she drove through, like up to the headlights.
 

jdub

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starscream5000 said:
I would def change the oil in that thing pronto. You are very lucky to not have killed the engine for good, most cars would have kicked the can as soon as that happend.

YES! Change the oil ASAP in case it's contaminated with water. It will have the same effect as a BHG allowing coolant into the crank case...the bearings will score...rod knock is next!