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Originally Posted by 12valve95
On a street / Strip truck my thoughts were running a normal A2A then thru an A2W that had a heat exchanger / radiator mounted in the bed.
I figure on the street it would just run water and then on the track it could run ice and I could still spray water / meth if I wanted.
The question is, why is this a bad idea? Are the gains just not worth it? Some people run water, some run air. why not run both for twice the cooling?
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"Bad idea" in this case, is a term that is subjective, I just think that it's not going to be as good as you're hoping it to be.
Bottom line, each type of IC will work effectively on it's own. Adding a second IC (doesn't matter the type) isn't going to make much of a difference, since ultimately you're using the ambient temp of the air surrounding your ride to cool them (using an ice box is the exception)
There is also a con to this, thats being completely overlooked and thats how much resistance the air flow inside is working against when you have two IC's. That restriction could cause a drop in pressure and potentially create much more lag.
If it were me, and I wanted to build a dual purpose ride, I'd ditch the a2a and go totally w2a. I may even build a system with two heat exchangers. I'd stick one h/e where it was exposed to the airflow (maybe under the hood, in front of the rad or in the bed with an air duct or some type of scoop to direct air thru it) and a second h/e in an ice box. Then plumb it with valves to direct the coolant to which ever h/e I wanted to use.
Ed