If you are planning on cooling an air-to-air cooler in real time, forget it, you'll be spending 20 hp to get back 3.
The strategy that does work is to chill a coolant bath for an air-to-water cooler, so that you can spend your horsepower cooling the water before you need to put power to the ground. This means you need to be able to predict usage by 10s of minutes, so it's only really appropriate for drag racing, where a low-tech block of ice would work just as well.
Ford has a patent on this scheme, so you might find some details by doing a search at uspto.gov; I think they may have prototyped it for the Lightning truck.
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i thought of that, 2 problems, one is mesioned above, you have to predict ahead of time, second it wouldn't be eficient if your planing on making it air to a/c core, cause cores are small and thin, you'll have to think of maintenance, what if it leaks, and i don't think it would be worth the trouble after every thing is done, for it not to be eficient...the a/c core to water sounds good tho, let me know if it works, if you do it, and uhhh pattent it will you...L8R leo
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