What would one do with their water to air IC in the winter? Empty it out?? It can get very cold up here. Even if you added antifreeze...aren't too cold intake temps bad as well?? Originally posted by warmonger:
Good points except that the water to air still has to have a heat exchanger to reject heat to the air at some point. If you have a large resevoir you will take a long time to heat it all up, but you will eventually have to cool it down too. Ideally you have a dedicated heat exchanger(read: small radiator) for the water-air intercooler and a resevoir that can be cooled below ambient by adding ice for greater than 100% efficiency. However, when the ice is gone it should still work as well as a normal air-air intercooler. Packaging is just easier and piping is smaller though the overall system is more complicated.
warmonger
1999 Silver Frost SVT
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Quaife, lightened SVT Flywheel, SPEC stage II clutch, removed resonator, k&n drop in - various other goodies too.
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