Can we determine the limit of efficiency for the AWIC?

[NuwanD]

A front mount would be better suited for continous high speed. Some of you may be shocked but I think that MY92 would be better off with a FMIC and not an air water unit

omg!!!

but isn't that kinda the point we were trying to make, different needs = different set-ups? i'm sure rsstiboy falls into the fmic category for his needs, and with the amount of time i spend at the track the same goes for me (tmic)

[rsstiboy]

i hardly ever do track work, i've noticed a difference even in stop start traffic in city driving, its once it gets hot that you really notice it, its more so the boost level i'm running on my TD05, I need that charge cool enough so when i do get it tuned i can run more timing because the air will be cooler. hence i'll be making more power than what i possibly could with a tmic. but if was to say run 15psi on my old VF12, i'd stay with the tmic water/air. i suppose it'll depend on what turbo and boost level and how you want to drive the thing, personally just looking at the saab intercoolers i can see how they would heat up very quickly, especially with the rs scoop. better than nothing but spend the extra money and get something that will work properley.

[FG!!]

from what i've heard, radiators are not "sized" using equations for any certain application. it's all rule of thumb stuff--fit the largest radiator that you can witout having packaging problems and the radiator should have a total heat loss of one third the power output. I'd imagine intercoolers ae the same way. heat transfer coefficient estimations for compact heat exchangers are too inaccurate and require testing, so might aswell just test it at the full system level.