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Begle1 wrote:Everything I've ever heard is that air-to-water aftercoolers are much more inefficient than air-to-air aftercoolers.
The air going through a standard intercooler is, if you're driving through death valley, 150 degrees. Usually it's below a hundred. Where does the water flowing over the air-to-water aftercooler come from? It comes from a radiater, which limits the air-to-water aftercooler from cooling any faster than a normal intercooler. (Convection/ Conduction differences don't matter when the water itself needs to be cooled by convection anyways.) And, if that water is tied in with the engine, it is always going to be above 200 degrees; if it isn't tied in with the engine, you're looking at a very complex system to build for inefficiency's sake.
At least that's my understanding of why you never see anybody interested in performance running air-to-water aftercoolers.
Of course, why anybody runs those giant, heavy leaky things beats me. Water injection is the way of the future.
gman07 wrote:You also have to remember that an air-to-air aftercooler isn't going to do as much good on an engine that doesn't move
I agree though, I'd rather have an air-to-air cooler in our application.
Begle1 wrote:
A stationary air-to-air intercooler would be just as effective as the stationary radiator attached to the stationary air-to-water intercooler.
Wouldn't it? I doubt I'm that right, as there has to be some benefit of air-to-waters or they wouldn't exist...
PToombs wrote:What all you guys are missing is you can run the water cooler to a bucket of ice water and get roughly 30* water in the cooler. Are you guys seeing the benefits here?
RumbleFish wrote:I'd rather have any intercooler.....
Greenleaf wrote:Some food for thought......
For water injection; carry a tank around in the bed like the farmers use to transport liquid fertilizer. About 500/1000 gallons.
The coolant typer coolers; mount a Thermo-King in the bed to chill the water and route that throught the cooler.
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