Never mind. I am not as dumb as I feared.

 

Ignore

 

That always a relief

Nik

 

If you knew how dumb I thought i was.....

I thought I'd just found a way to thoroughly trash my engine.

 

Do Tell.....

 

You can always go to the MINI Confessional in OT.

 

We'll be the judge of that. Whatcha do?

 

If I remember correctly from the original post it was something about an intake, oil gunk, a garden hose, and a possibly ruined engine. Something like that. I didn't have an answer so I didn't post then.

Nik

 

Well, that compination CAN'T be good!

-Cody

 

Are we washing the engine out at each oil change through the intake with a garden hose

 

oops wrong thread,whovous hope everything is okay and your motor is running smoothly

 

Go get em.......

Here we get volunteer firemen+fireworks = but at least they can put out what they start.

Nik

 

Sorry wrong thread :impatient

 

Alright, but only because you all asked so nicely.

I removed and cleaned the Alta CAI filter for the first time. When I went to put it back, I noticed the bottom of the CAI box was gunky as well. I figured it was the same sort of gunk as on the filter, and that it would clean the same way.

So, I sprayed some cleaner in the box, waited three minutes and hosed it out, expecting the dirty water to simply drain out the bottom of the box.

When the water/gunk combo seemed to be just standing there, I started to get paranoid. When I spotted what looked sort of like a drain at the lower front of the box, I got real paranoid, since for all I knew, it was somehow draining into the engine. I figured neither water, nor gunk, nor cleaner would do the innards of my engine good.

So, rather than stand there staring at it, I came inside and posted my quite terrified note.

By the time I got back outside, the water was gone, and I was able to look at the whole thing a little more sanely. What I saw as a 'drain' was actually the air intake that I could trace to the input just over the radiator.

I am not sure just where the water drained to, but with a few hundred miles on the engine since that time, I am pretty sure it was not the engine. it was a scary couple of minutes until I figured out an engine could not be designed the way I was imagining, but I got over em.

There. Dumb enough for y'all?

 

For what it's worth, I've done dumber things.

 

Me too.

 

Well, it turns out that posting the original note was the dumb thing, and the cleaning was just fine.

Still, I gotta tell ya, thinking about just what it was going to take to cure the problem I thought I created made me feel almost too stupid to breathe.

 

That won't even get you nominated to the Darwin awards. Cleaning the filter with water while the car is running or "flushing" your engine with water, now thats stoopid!

 

I think we've all had those "oh ____" moments when the mind races and the adrenaline kicks in a bit. In the better times, you calm down when you realize its all okay. At other times... sigh.

Glad this was one of the better times! ;-)

 

There now, don't you feel so much better?

 

Good confession, whovous. I can't tell you how many things I've ruined by 'cleaning' them. And that doesn't include the engines running poorly due to water in the spark plugs/injectors/dist.cap/etc.
Glad to hear it wasn't fatal.

 

My talent of late seems to involve destroying motherboards, though I am as yet unconvinced either one is my fault. I am pretty sure this cleaning idea was not only safe, but that it was actually a good idea after all.

But like Minitee says, "there are moments when the mind races.." and all manner of catastrophic flags unfurl in the brain.

LBE, no, I won't actually try it to be sure, but would spraying water on an Alta CAI filter while the engine is running really hurt something? How?