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Originally posted by Black Cotton
hes even concerned on track days that a simple air to air wont be enough, and wants me to convert to ice to air which would totally take away from my street-ability all together. .
Just my opinion BUT.....I took on the W/A with the intention of showing that it could be used in a daily driver situation. I was wrong (certainly for our area). After running through the winter, it was a PITA to maintain (and I wasn't even running the turbo). Had to watch the water all the time. Needed to put in anti freeze so the lines wouldn't freeze up (though they did indeed freeze up. I believe due to the fact that the "water" was mostly standing still. I ended up having to buy another pump). The little front intercooler I got, developed pin holes in the coils (one from impact on the exterior and another looks like it might be from the interior).
While the W/A, when running properly, can bring IAT's to ambient, or lower (I'm a big proponent of the effects of cooling on horsepower), for a daily, I just didn't find it practical.
As for a tuner, I'm going to stick with MSnS to see how far we can go with it.
Oh, one more thing, our engines are hardy motherf**kers. Don't be quite so afraid of knock with these. I've never been knock limited with the NA (110 oct now, with 12.5 comp). And the turbo has showed no signs of detonation (I have pulled the head after the water pump pulley fell off, and the piston had no signs. No signs of knock on the last dyno either, though we didn't push it that far with 24 lbs on a mixture of 3 gallons 93 and 3 gallons C-16, oops).
Captain Caveman
96 RS Turbo 11.414 @ 119.62 MSNS, Crower 2 NA cams, BW366, 10.5 comp, UDP, 60mm TB, W/A intercooler, 3.55 tranny 567.9whp 430tq
97 RS NA 13.188 @ 103.87 MSnS powered 12.5 comp, Crower 3's and 219.4whp with 175tq
98 RS DD 12.5 comp on stock ECU, LTH, Crower 2's, Koni, GC, Hypercoil, DG hats
99 OZ 5sp Stocker 15.856 @ 85.97
99 GS stocker auto 17.7@77mph!
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