Fan Envy

[turbovanman]

Just did some spirited driving up some steep hills and lots of idling, didn't skip a beat and never ran hot-before it would get a tad hot after lots of WOT on hill climbs, lots more oomph up the hills. I'll be towing my enclosed trailer in a few weeks so that will be the test but it never ran hot anyway.

 

[Acesneights1]

The electric fans would have to pull equal or more mass cfm than stock steel which is hard to do.

 

[Franko914]

Franko, Your thread on your conversion was on the old site. How did your fan setup workout for you ?

It worked great, much better than I expected, especially after I replaced the 12 "Heavy Duty" Bosch-type relays with "continuous duty" real ones (see attached pic). On a warm summer day, in NYC traffic, one fan was enough to drop the coolant temperature enough to turn off the thermostatic relay. I would imagine that both fans would be needed when placing load on the engine.

Again, the in-the-radiatorfins'-face electric fans do not have to move as much air as the belt driven ones because of the efficiency in their design. A 10,000 cfm belt-driven fan is needed because of the "leaks" around the open metal blades, whereas a 6,000 cfm dual-electric fan setup might be all that is needed, even under load.

 

[turbovanman]

Still working awesome and still running cooler than before. Need to hook my a/c up to the fans, can't use it in town, whoops. ):h