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I think one of the main benefits of the air-air intercooler is the long piping when it comes to cooling.
Although it poses a boost reducing architecture, it will have more time to cool the air in a more effective way, especially on the track when the CFM is pretty high at high speeds
On the other hand, the air-water cooler will cool better in low boost situations and street like performance but when the boost is higher, the heatsink inside the intake manifold will not be able to match the increasingly hot flow of air coming from the supercharger, however if you choose to "refrigerate" or "ice cool", you will have a more effective system on cooling.
So from my poor information in car FI systems and good engineering knowledge i would say:
ESS VT3 >>>> ESS VT2-500 > VF2-480 > ESS VT1-445
If you plan on staying sub 500hp, get VF, if you plan on crazy upgrades like beedub go ESS, until VF can provide an fmic system along their water-air schema.
then VF will have a supreme advantage in every aspect.
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