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Originally Posted by Kyle@STILLEN
The other thing to consider is that the majority of O.E. manufacturer's with supercharged vehicle's use air to water:
Ford
Ford GT Supercar
Lightning
Ford GT500
Ford Mustang Cobra
GM
Corvette ZR-1
Cobalt SS
Toyota
TRD supercharger for the 07+ Tundra
TRD supercharger for the older Tacomas
Aftermarket supercharger manufacturers who use air to water intercooling:
Edelbrock
Vortech
Magnuson
Whipple
Kenne Bell
Saleen
Steeda
As everyone has said...Air to air is less expensive, if it was better, wouldn't major manufacturer's use it in their supercharged applications?
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Kyle you conveniently left out the fact that a good portion of those examples have no choice but to run air/water. Almost anything w/ a roots or twin screw style blower is going to be more than slightly difficult to make work w/ an air/air system. There are probably far more examples of factory forced induction cars operating w/ air/air rather than air/water.
That being said the biggest question i would have isn't what is better between air/water and air/air. I personally think they both have their places depending on the intended outcome of the build. The question would be is the system in question large enough to keep the temps under control for the vehicle/blower combination. The only way to prove or disprove this is w/ extended driving monitoring in and out air temps. Not 7 min of dyno runs on a "HOT" 72° day.