
Originally Posted by
BenFenner
A water-to-air intercooler is "best" suited for a daily driver or drag car. It is not well suited for a circuit track car with lapping sessions of any considerable duration.
Heat soak is the issue with using it for long races. For a daily driver it is just dandy.
But...but... the ZR1 is air/water. So is the ariel atom, and the lotus elise turbo, and most MR2 turbo setups.
There are a lot of air/water setups on track cars, but it isn't nearly as conventional. People love their air/air units because they look cool and are cheap and easy.
A proper air/water setup will outperform a air/air when
properly engineered, and the heat exchanger
should be big enough to remove any heat extracted from the IC core.
I wonder what the capacity of the air/water setup is on these other track cars that utilize them. I can see some big benefits, but serious downfalls of these setups.
I would like to see how hot the temps on a good setup would get.