educate me on water to air intercoolers

[we_fly_high]

Very nice

[o2camaross]

IMO, if it is mainly a street truck I would stick A/A. An A/W uses the intercooler, a water/ice tank, a pump, and a heat exchanger mounted in the front to dissipate heat. There is no doubt for a track setup A/W is superior by far, water cools much better than air and you have very little pressure drop through the intercooler. Bad thing is for a street setup I don't see it being any better than an A/A intercooler. Plus it's more moving parts that can break.

[zebra]

one thing i never quite understood (hence why i never have put ice in mine yet):
how long does the ice typically take to melt in, say, a 1/2 gal tank?
what do you do after all the ice melts? do you then do a coolant flush after so many ice baths due to the resultant diluted antifreeze mix?

[jansen]

Truck will mainly be used on the track with the occasional 10 mile trip to town. I figured I would just dump the tank and refill with ice water as needed.