Thread: SC confused !
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      09-06-2014, 06:23 AM   #419
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Originally Posted by MFL View Post
So which SC unit is the best? Clearly ESS is the champ here.

Is there any reason why ESS chose to go with a liquid cooled heat exchanger/intercooler over a unit with a FMIC with the option of methanol?
Piping for a front mount is more challenging with the big Vortech taking up a lot of space in the engine bay. The smaller Rotrex is easier to fit with intercooler piping. Both methods work and one is not universally better than the other. It is more a packaging issue. BMW, for example, used air to air on the turbo inline 6 motors, but uses air to water on the turbo V8 models. Most if not all factory positive displacement superchargers use air to water but that is also a packaging issue to conveniently fit the cooler between the supercharger and the motor. There are very few factory centrifugal superchargers, but like a turbo, there is more flexibility in mounting so either form of intercooling could be used depending on space for piping.
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