Quote Originally Posted by darkhorizon View Post
"boost loss" is not what you kids think it is... The problem with air/air intercoolers is the fact that the air is mechanically tumbled through the exchanger, where it is cooled better than just blowing by a straight fin in a w/a, but in turn the intercooler itself consumes energy and creates a restriction... which is measured by "boost loss".

An air/air would probably offer more cooling (aka more efficent), but really the extra cooling is just going to let you run less octane at the end of the day... it will not show big gains in power.

I would not have any problems trying to setup an air/air on a whipple... It really kills 2 birds with 1 stone on those setups.
Okay some good news finally. I am not doing this to run 87 octane just want to cool my air down to get more boost and timing. I dont have to money for a water to air and have the skills and brains to machine all my own stuff.