ONLYA4.8L

Just wondering what ur guys input is on me goin to and air to water to air intercooler.. 12x9x4 3inch inlet and outlet

2004SSS

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you mean an air to water? lol

anywho , from my experience at least. an air to air works a little better for daily driven vehicle , where heat soak really doesent come into play since air is always flowing and not getting hotter.

where as a air to water , works great at the track . you can have a reservoir set to your size/needs and you can control the temp and get sub ambient temps with ice . however when driven for longer periods of time the water will warm from pulling the heat out of the intake charge over time.

ONLYA4.8L

cool thanks

LBSBLOWN

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I'm currently installing the Killer Chiller system on my truck and it's a air to water setup but it also uses the Airconditioning Freon system to drop the water temps in the inercooler system by 50 deg's. This will defenite be a better DD setup. (http://www.killerchiller.com/system_3_page.htm)

TrickTurbo

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Like mentioned already air to air usually street. Air to water at the track.
unless you have a way of always cooling the water. Heres a link to what we did with one of our set ups. Also with air to water you can get below abien air temps with using ice in a tank.

blown3qtr

I'd REALLY like to see that killer chiller in person. I've been toying with the idea of making something like that myself. I've been a little concerned about how it would affect the a/c system, but then again suburbans and tahoes have a front and rear a/c sytem, so I dont see why it couldn't work.

LBSBLOWN

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I will post up my results and findings with pics soon i hope, I have been data logging and recording my IAT vs OAT(Outside Air Temp) also my A/C pressures and output temp at the vents, and IAT advance or how much timing is being pulled durring normal driving in traffic and on the highway and durring a 0-125mph pull after heat soak on the streets.

TURBHOE

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one thing i never could figure out is, if the water to air intercooler has a big radiator to cool the water back off how does it get heat soak? seems like it would cool the water back down to ambiet temps.?.

nonnieselman

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My Water/Air setup works great. System holds about 3 gallons of water. And my resivor will hold 10# ice easy.

I have a Magnacharger Heat Exchanger mounted below my Trans cooler.

here is how my system is setup.....

Reservoir > Pump > Heat Exhanger> Heater Core > Intercooler> Reservoir

Just cruising my IATs are about 8-12* above Ambient. when its nice and hot outside any sane person is goin to have their air conditioner on. So i just turn the blender to around half way. After about 5 Minutes the IATs start falling, on a 104* on the rear view mirror ive seen a low of 84* IATs. Im sure it would have gone lower, but i had to take my exit.

Its nice when towing during the summer, IATs stay decently low. And when i get in boost the water/Meth drops it even more.

With the Heater core lines looped on the water pump, the AC blows about 5* cooler. atleast thats what my lil thermometer showed in the center vent.

So its a win win situation.

I ran out of hose and the 2 hoses goin to the Heater Core are touching the Cold side pipe before the Intercooler so im sure theres a few more Degrees there.

its fun messing with these kinda things.