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Air/water intercooler is inferior in every way to an air/air cooler UNLESS- you have some way to chill the water below ambient air temps. As far as an intake manifold goes, the stock manifold doesn't have any glaring problems. Increasing the plenum size or changing the manifold runner length...

For those of you who read my posts earlier, I made a mistake in the first post. I had put the Tesla "Y" battery pack with 81 kwh at 771 lbs. In fact it was 771 kilograms, or 1700 lbs. Makes the point about electric not being remotely useful in long haul trucking even more convincing. It...

One might argue that in the US, only 65% of electricity is generated by fossil fuel. Even so, if we calculate that percentage by the electricity needed, we'd still be measuring around 580 million gallons of diesel- vs 480 million gallons of diesel in the non battery powered semi trucks. So...

So, if you've done the math, we'd need approximately 5.6 million * 770lbs of cobalt = 4.36 billion pounds. Worldwide cobalt production? 440 million lbs. So only about 10% of the cobalt needed. Manganese- no problem. As discussed, lithium = 5.6 million * 500 lbs = 2.8 billion lbs. World wide...

You can do the math on your own about the amount of lithium, cobalt, and manganese that would be necessary, but think abut this: The entire US grid in 2023 produced around 4.18 trillion kwh. Just those semis on eight hour shift would require over 11.2 billion kwh. Over one year, 11.2B * 365 =...

There are some assumptions: First, a modern diesel tractor (per federal law) can weigh 80,000 lbs total. Of that amount, 42-48,000 lbs of cargo. It requires an average of 225 kw to move a full load down the road at 65 mph. So, for an 8 hour driving shift we'd require a battery pack of at...

If you think of a car as a transportation tool, there is nothing wrong with an EV. If you are a urban or suburban driver who commutes a short distance back and forth to work, it's an ideal machine assuming you have a small battery pack and can plug it in at home or work. Of course, you'd have...

You can do a site search for "piggyback" systems. JB4, AFE, etc. Here is one of my posts on the subject that is relevent. Read the entire thread if you wish.

I don't know what you read, but if you're not using ethanol, there is absolutely no HP benefit to a fueling upgrade on stock turbos. But if you want to lighten your wallet, go for it.

If you're running 94 octane gasoline, why upgrade at all? You would only need an upgrade if you were planning on using more than a 50:50 mixture of ethanol.

It's not a "pissing competition". Any criticism you feel you're experiencing isn't "inaccurate". If you want to do something that raises IAT, adds weight, lowers efficiency, incorporates more failure points and introduces parasitic losses (pumping water isn't free) you're free to do so. You...

You're not getting the reply you want because it's pointless to use an air/water setup.

An air/water intercooler is not superior to an air intercooler and you won't find them in road racing. You will find them mostly where there are packaging constraints or roots-style superchargers where because of the packaging (supercharger is part of manifold), the compactness of the air/water...

Thermodynamics don't favor water. Water just allows you to have a higher heat absorption number. Don't forget, once that water gets to a number above ambient, it also takes a lot longer to cool it. If you're using some sort of method to cool the liquid below ambient (ice, etc) it might work...

If you're going to go that route, the pump would have to be sized appropriately based on BTUs added and removed. Ideally it would be variable speed with thermal control. There are no scenarios in an ST where an air/water intercooler makes sense.

80% efficiency water radiator to 80% efficiency intercooler = 64% efficiency. The only good thing about a water core is that it has more mass (h20) which means it takes longer to heat soak. However efficiency goes down and once it gets hot it takes a lot to cool that fluid back down. Usually...

Yep. You're going to be overly rich. It's possible that the ecu will trim the fuel after driving for awhile, but you're just asking for other issues.

These vehicles are incredibly complex, and there are going to be situations where the vehicle just doesn't respond the way one might expect. If you're not aware, the ST has a steering wheel angle sensor. It uses info from this along with speed sensor, yaw sensors, torque sensors, acceleration...

For all who are interested, the ST does not "learn your driving style". What it does do is "learn" tolerances in the engagement and disengagement of the clutches between gears as those tolerances change over time.

No. Take a look here