Fuel pump for this isn't there yet.
And that brings me back to my original point.
Shawn, I'm not going to quote your whole post, thanks for writing that out I read through it and agree with much of what you're saying.
The problem here is fuel and water to air intercooling. I don't know why GM always does this. Every single car they've made end up having heat soak issues.
Think about it this way. Water to air intercooling is thermodynamically more efficient, BUT is it more effective? (Of course it is, 2J, it's more efficient)... Not really...
Air to water ----- to ----- water to air.
You're REALLY still only air to air intercooling... That's what even engineers overlook. Now DRAG racers that run a Reservoir with ice and run a water to air core ARE water to air intercooling, because they aren't relying on air passing over another heat exchanger to remove the heat.
It's so hard to make up a good analogy for water to air intercooling. You guys can probably consider the dynamics on their own, but some things to consider.
Pump, adds heat, reduced piping reduces heat loss through the pipe. Then you have to let the incoming air during cruising speeds pull the heat back out of the intake plenum heat exchanger, which means the air isn't available to cool off the inlet, combustion chamber, valves as radily... So back to the Water. The water is like a credit card, yeah it'll absorb a big hit and won't kill you, but you can't use it for big purchases back to back consecutively if you cannot afford to pay it off. The heat exchanger is like your wage, and the water (The specific heat is something like 4.1-4.2 joules per gram which is extremely good - Super high credit limit) is the credit. If you can spend faster than you can earn, all you're doing is back-loading the work.
Eventually when you go through your runs and heat all of the water up, you've taken 5-10% (total) more heat (single pass) out of the intake charge with 25% less surface area (much smaller exchangers in the plenum) which is great, all you're doing is forcing the heat exchanger to work beyond it's capability.
Air/Air intercooling does the same thing, it just doesn't spend more than it can earn. It only has a $5,000 credit limit. So you're going to tune and mod with supporting mods that will intrinsically accommodate what you're requesting the octane of the fuel/limits of the engine to do.
The heat exchanger in the front has it's own mass so it too can absorb a blast but it won't absorb beyond what it can shed just moments later, and you're not going to store the waste heat somewhere else (in water) so that moments later when you call on the water to air intercooling to work, it's now LESS efficient than the Air/Air was in the beginning....
Water to Air is just about packaging, and when you detune enough, you can make a tune a little more mathematically consistent.
What ATS-V owners REALLY need, is a NEW upper plenum, I'll deal with the .5 second throttle lag from the air spring effect with the A/A cooling, and run a nice efficient A/A core up front.
THEN we need a single turbo, not these twins.
I think everyone would be much happier. ATS has enough gears or enough control to put you where you need to be. You don't need to blow the tires off at 1500 rpm.