Oh!........yes it will. And it's happened to many here on the forum.

Mostly to lowered cars with aftermarket air intakes.

 

just use your good common sense and don't drive through huge puddles of water at any speed.... I wouldn't even do that with my stock intake.

 

Yes you are.

 

 

Hey Howie - which end did he burp from?

 

wow some of you guys need to just drive your cars and not give any technical advice. I personally have replaced 2 c5 motors under insurance because of hydrolock both stock cars with stock intakes. the insurance companies will not just repair the motor they dont want to take any chances on this type of car. Remember that most insurance companies have to warranty the work for a good period of time and trust me with 26hrs of labor they dont want to pay twice and both cars that I did cracked the block all the way down the side the piston that locked was on. Trust me call your insurance company P.S. the service advisor probably did not know what the heck hydrolock even meant cause half of them dont know what the air filter is and just told you it was seized basicall saying the motor is shot

 

In 2 words...BOTTOM FEEDERS!!

 

This refers to where the radiator gets it's cooling airflow, the airfilter on a stock C5 coupe or convertible gets the majority of it's airlfow from the engine compartment and the Z06 has the openings in the front facia for the majority of it's airflow.

 

I have had similar experience with a local dealer who advertises as being one of the biggest in the Southeast, at least that's what I "Heard". I took my '91 coupe to this dealer in July 1998 to have the climate control repaired. Almost two weeks later, I still didn't have the car because they "were having problems with back ordered air box and computer parts". I went there to buy brake pads for my daughter's Geo and lo and behold my car was sitting outside, not 50' from the street, unlocked with my golf clubs in the hatch area. I took my clubs out of the car and NO ONE said a word or challenged me. But here's the part that will make you giggle - there was a service manual in the passenger's seat open to the section on the climate control functions. That's cool, except it was for a '92 'Vette. Now I know there are probably no significant differences between the two cars, but the combination of all these things, plus the implicit message that THE DEALER had some tech who was cook booking his way through the repair was unnerving. Oh, and I didn't get the car back until the middle of frickin September - 9 weeks. Unless it is absolutely a repair that I physially cannot do or requires special tools that I do not have, the work gets done here. If I have to go to a dealer, there are others that are better, or so I have "Heard".

Cliff notes version - if the dealer doesn't have a tech with a Vette specialist certificate on the wall, keep on movin'

Charlie

 

You bet your sweet @$$ you are. STAY OUT OF WATER THAT IS HIGHER THAN YOUR FRONT AIR DAM.

Charlie

 

You know, I get it...but I have to be honest, being new to the forum, I never imagined someone would actually drive their vette through water deep enough to cause this problem. I don't even drive my vette in the rain, let alone through puddles up to the air dam. Like I said before, the original author of this thread claimed he only drove through an INCH of water, and if that's the case, any splashing consistent with that height of water should not be a problem. I guess that's the price you pay for trying to drive this car year round. Fortunately for me, I don't.

 

Exactly ... I don't think many guys have actually looked at where their stock air intake is -- I just did. It's almost 2 feet off the ground and behind the front facia. One Z06s, the intake grills on the front facia are about a foot off the ground. In order to get water into a stock intake you would have to drive through DEEP water (1+ foot) with enough speed to push it up inside the facia and into the aibox's intake slot.

I didn't know GM made a 4x4 version of the Vette.

 

My stock c5 took about 2 ft. of water and immediately stopped.When the tow truck fished it out, the water was upto where you could only see the shift **** inside. I had it towed to the dealership where the BCM,PCM,MAF and starter got replaced.All conectors and harness plugs got cleaned out.The engine did have water in the cylinders,but since the car can't be cranked with water in it, nothing happened to the engine after it got cleaned out.Surprisingly everything worked! The seats,windows a/c controls,stereo,cd changer even the speakers.Changed all fluids and none had water in them.The last thing that I replaced was the windshield wiper relay because the wipers wouldn't stop working.Guess it thought it was still drowning. Happy to say that I consider myself lucky because it's running like a champ.Nobody believes me when they see the car.

 

In this case, see if the insurance co. will cut you a check rather then pay a mechanic. You might could get an LS2 or something out of the deal.

 

Mine is my DD. When I see rain, I do everything I can to avoid it. Sometimes you just cant and you have to drive it wherever. If you happen to be in an area with unfamiliar roads then you would have no idea where the puddles gather and get the deepest.

These cars are bottom feeders! The air damn is freakin road vaccumn, it wouldn't take much to suck water into this thing.

 

Something's bothering me about this thread and the stealers diagnosis.

I don't know if anyone recalls this but not long ago there was some video footage of a C5 driving through 2 feet + of water, it was actually coming up over the hood on to the windshield. The car was taped showing it driving about 100 feet or so until he was out on wet pavement.

I'm not saying that a C5 is essentially a submarine because it's clearly not and situations like this need to be avoided at all costs.

I know if this was my Corvette I'd be digging in a bit deeper to understand and diagnosis the problem.

 

Moral of the story, dont wash your C5 to avoid possible hydrolock.

 

The stock air box setup does not get air from the bottom like the radiator does. The air box is in front and above the radiator on top of the radiator shroud, and air that goes up and through the radiator does not go to the air box. As far as the airbox, it is not a bottom feeder.

 

Okay, at second glance your right.

 

Yes it will lock it up. water does not compress very well