TBMeech

I've got an APS cold air kit on my MY99 STI-V, been on there a while now, it sits right in the inner wing and draws the cold air up from there, the bottom of the filter is touchable when I remove the orange vents (Filter is about 1/2" above the Orange vent hole), considering the weather we have here (its crap but not mega crap), no water gets drawn through the filter and into the engine, even if you hit rather large puddles at speed, the only time I would be worried would be crossing a very deep flood water, but then I'd probably just turn round anyway with the car being on Leda's i'd sink - so I wouldn't be worried at all running the air duct from the orange vent hole to the airbox personally.

What I did discover tho when I took the underneath off the std air vent on the drivers side to let more air in when I had a K&N 57i, in the rain the water would easily get into the engine and then drip onto the MAF sensor housing (Lucky it didnt kill my MAF), hence why I then changed to the APS which is miles better as it draws a lot cooler air in anyway than running a normal style induction kit, those bonnet scoops and a open underneath would worry me but I think it would let less water in than say having no additional scoop.



[Edited by TBMeech - 11/14/2002 4:38:33 PM]