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Mike,
I've done a heck of a lot of air-flow system design, fabricating, and balancing.
There may be NO pressure imbalance. If you add a restrictor to the first throttle-body/carb, you can "tune" it so the pressure it "sees" is the same as the second. This will work over a given Flow Rate range, but not at ALL flow rates. That may be moot as the range you tune it for may well encompass the engines' whole range.
The best setup IS where no flow restrictors are needed of course, (generally a symmetrical arrangement) if you have the space for packaging.
If I designed it, I'd use a "Y" instead of a "T", and keep all transitions smooth to minimize pressure losses. And, while it's not "blingy".. I'd also insulate the tubing after the intercooler since it's probably aluminum and sitting on top of a hot engine.
I like the liquid to air intercooler. The loads on it won't be anywhere as high as cooling a whole engine, so you most likely DON'T have to run it forward/ nor punch holes in any of the bodywork.
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