Im looking for personal opinions concerning wether a air/air or air/water intercooler is better. I have a 95Z with a t-trim intend on @7-800 hp engine and I cannot use aftercooler kit from vortech any info nice.

 

Air - water cooler is better. The advantage is that you can actually put ice in the reservoir. I think it is more suitable for all-out performance guys who don't drive their cars on the street because from what I hear, installing the air-water intercooler is some major work. The air-air will give you decent gains without the worry about the maintanence etc...

 

If you can do air-to-water, do it. It will cool the charge better than air-to-air. The best setups have a good size reservoir, a bilge pump, and a heat exchanger (radiator) with a fan. Being able to fill the reservoir with ice is a big plus...

I'd like to see a system that uses a type of refrigerant to keep the water cool, but I'm probably asking too much there

 

Roush did this on a mustang,It worked great for 4-7 seconds. Then you had to cruise around slow to cool it back off. Probably needed a bigger tank.

 

For a setup that uses the AC, couldn't you just use an extra evaporator as a core for the charge to pass over? Not worry about water? Or would you want to use the evaporator as the heat exchanger to cool the water in a traditional w/a IC?

Would seem easier to just use the evaporator as a core. Would be more like an a/a IC, alot simpler. No water, tanks, or pumps. Not sure what cfm an evaporator would flow, maybe that's the problem...

 

an A/C evaporator wouldn't flow enough air to idle...

I was talking about "refrigerating" the water in a A/W intercooler setup -- always keeping the water cold.

It's easy to do in a marine environment because you just pull the water out of the lake, run it through the A/W IC and dump it back in the lake. Boats have it so good....