Why do you have to disconnect the negative from the battery?

 

i beleive its to reset the ECU, but you could also do as i did and just take out the ECU fuse from under the hood (that way you dont lose your presets on the head unit)

 

What happens if you dont reset it? Will it give you problems? I am trying to investigate why my SRI goes bonkers in the rain.

 

you need to reset the ECU so it will calibrate itself for new airflow, i dont think its 'required' but i know everyone does it. my V2 which is SRI never gives problems...whats wrong again?

 

I drive through water and the whole freaking engine bogs down and shakes... it is the intake because I put the stock air box back on and it doesnt do it anymore

 

you dont need to...

 

I really think my car is an anomaly... I have been researching this for a year now and still no one can explain it... I am looking at a K&N kit with a box and I am thinking this could be the fix I need. http://www.knfilters.com/search/prod...x?Prod=57-3513 Take a look at it and tell me where the water could possibly enter? Does it seal with the hood?

 

ya it does seal with the hood, thats a nice intake...i would go for it, but its not ment to keep the water away (which it still will do), but its ment to keep the heat away

 

yeah water can still get in there, but nothing that should cause that, unless you are going tubing in your car, which of course im sure HCF does not condone

 

It is the weirest thing... I had this car for my final year of college and it did semi-okay in the snow... I take it home to Portland OR and it goes bonkers on the freeway... We have bad ruts here, but they arent any worse than anywhere else... I ride in a rut for about 5 seconds and "GURGLE GURLGE *shake shake*" and the car begins to die until I get out of the rut and hold in the clutch...

Then I drop gear and rev high and it is fine again... I added an aqua shield and it got better... then a heat shield (injen) and it worked really well until it really really rained.... then it failed. I never mounted it to anything and I never unplugged the battery so i think it had to do with that combination.