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Originally Posted by SmokeG305
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no, its not exaggerated. i had a friend who ran over a puddle like a moron in his civic a few years back. the car was stuttering to stay on after that for a couple of days, AND he had the bypass valve. of course, i told him just leave the car on for a bunch of hours and it will eventually burn off... and it did 
those bypass valves dont work. |
My CRX did that every time I hit a puddle, basically anything that could be considered "standing water". The distributor was getting wet, I had to pull the cap off numerous times and dry it out. Granted I got real good at pulling it off and putting it back.
A little water will not hurt an engine, old radial engines use "water injection" in to reduce cylinder temps so they could dump more fuel. I know it's not water they used but either way it wasn't flammable either.