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Originally Posted by Tom N
Air to water intercooler is more effecient when set up properly on a drag car. But will not work as well as a high quality air to air like a large Garrett core on a street car or road coarse car.
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sure enough i've seen them on drag cars
This is effective cause you can get the temperatures below ambient.
Formula one, Bugatti Veyron, several lotus cars ++ use water to air intercoolers.
Also most cars with superchargers does, naturally due to space constraints.
MR2 people also run them due to space constraints, only on turbo applications of course
heat soak should be less appearant for water to air IC if sizing is done right, the minor pressure drop and minor response drop with extra core size and tubing should increase performance ever so slightly, I don't assume my buttdyno can even notice it.
But doing it cause I can
Edit: the way I see it, extra weight and complexity is the downsides.