| use my sword or bazooka. ;-) For street applications, there would still be advantages I believe. Consider this: -70 degres ambient: If it takes 20 seconds of no-boosting while driving at 40MPH to completely cool the water back down to ambient temperature and you begin exercising the long pedal on the right :) and it takes 20 seconds for you to reach a coolant temperature of 100 degrees(in the water-air system, of course), then I think it would be safe to say that an air-air intercooler would have actually gotten significantly hotter in the same time, but it will likely cool back to ambient temps quicker. In this case, the only real difference is how long you can boost and maintain lower charge temps. The water wont heat as quickly, but it also wont cool as quickly - so its a tradeoff in terms of thermal cycle rates, but being able to maintain lower charge temps over a period of time will mean more power - you'll just have to wait a little longer to 'recharge' your cooling system. Then again, you could install one of those N2O intercooler chiller bars onto the heat exchanger and voila! :) Dunno really - it would require more extensive real-world testing with a computer in the car and temperature and pressure transducers in specific locations to datalog over time. Perhaps have a water-air on one side and an air-air on the other side and simply compare between the two sides - compare the data side by side.. Would be an interesting mobile-lab project. :)
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