4x4ord wrote:
ShinerBock wrote:
There is a reason why water-to-air intercooler are mainly popular in drag racing applications and air-to-air are more popular in longer duration track applications.
There is also a reason why Ford chose to put a more expensive and complicated charge air cooling system on the Super Duty. I don't know much about it, so anything I could come up with would just be a guess, it obviously wasn't to cut costs or because they didn't care about cooling.
Ford uses a water to air intercooler to better control the air temperature consistency going into the engine. If you control your inputs you'll have better success with controlling your outputs (i.e. efficiency, power, emissions).