AWIC, water intercooler Options

[Hanyo]

Why does it seem like front mount intercoolers are more popular these days?

I personally like Air to Water Intercoolers more, just because you can always dump in dry ice into the water and have a great intercooler efficency.

Why don't more poeple use AWIC?

What other car manuactures make AWIC other then the gt4?
what's wrong with the cheap ebay ones?
Ebay awic

item #: 8036625491



can someone tell me a little more about AWIC systems?

This post has been edited by Hanyo: Feb 11, 2006 - 9:35 AM

[Supersprynt]

Yeah... I dont think you understand how intercoolers work.

Air to air (ie FMIC) are cooled by air passing thru the core in which the compressed air is passing inside the core. The moving air cools the fins & metal and heat is dispersed from the hot air to the metal which is cooled via the moving air.

In a water to air intercooler, instead of air cooling the metal, water is cooling the metal. There is no direct contact between the compressed air and the water (as also like the a2a). Water to air intercoolers are more effective in the way that water is a better cooling agent than air is.