That's what I read all over ls1tech that A/W IC is more suited for drag racing and A/A is better for daily driving.

Water will get hot and will take time to cool down, unless something innovative is being developed for this project.

 

If you have a serious sized water cell and pump. It will work wonders with just water in the system and driving around. When u put ice in it say for a race or dyno it will def help cool the intake air temp. 1-2 gal cell I'd not enough of water for the cooler to work efficient. On a road trip or multiple pulls it will get warm as smoke show said.

All in what u want and more importantly how much ur willing to pay

I would think Fitting 3-4 gallon cell of water in the engine bay might be difficult.

For the cleanness, easy install, cost, and power goals a monster a/a behind the grill works fine for me. Twins would be so BA!

 

A properly sized air/water system works fine on the street.
The tank size has more to do with race then street, and how much ice you want to use.

 

People seem to forget that with a proper setup you have a heat exchanger to cool the water back off. Guys that use A/W setups for racing won't use a cooler. Just a water/Ice box. How many engines now days are air cooled? VW uses an A/W intercooler for the passat diesel. Didn't the syty use one too? .......

 

I think if you can run the cold AC line in the intrercooler tank in spring shape you would get some serious cooling .

 

Did that a couple years back, water temp would maintain around 60'F.
Another way is to use the heater core in the truck. Just remove hoses from core. route heater hoses togteher.
Then loop your IC lines to the core connections. Turn temp switch to HOT, fan on HI and now your blowing cold air across the heater core. Kind of goes back to the complexity of the system..

 

The Lightning that didn't make it to production had an A/C intercooled setup that was just for a quick blast down the 1/4. It cooled the tank for maybe a minute or two and gave it 75 more hp. It was something like 5-550 hp a few years back from the factory. This is what I remember anyway.

 

Your correct. My Denali is running an Air/water kit for my supercharger. My other DD is a TT V-12 making 650hp 750 trq/lbs all through an air/water system. Neither vehicle has any engine cooling issues and has minimal power loss from heat in the summer.

 

You should make that an option on the kit.

 

I think killer chiller offer something for these trucks.

This thing is getting up in price.