> I sugegst an electric fan - better gas mileage, better acceleration,
> quieter. (The first two are in theory with the last obvious.
I can second this. I removed a flex fan from a 350 in a chevy pickup and
installed an electric fan. The truck had a 185 thermostat, I built a
controller which used the voltage across the gauge sensor to turn the
fan on at 200 and 0ff at 195. The fan rarely came on, only when stuck in
heavy stop-and-go traffic or after slowing to 20-30mph after a while at
70mph. Gas mileage went from 10mpg to 11.5mpg with no other changes.
This is a 15% improvement, nothing to laugh at. And the truck was
noticeably quieter. Finally it seems like almost all of the new cars and
trucks have gone to electric fans.
One little caveat - a lot of the fans come with plastic ties which are
intended to be threaded between the core tubes of the radiator and used
to hold the fan on. Don't do it, they will saw holes in the tubes.
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Robert W. Hughes (Bob)
BackYard Engineering
29:40.237N, 95:28.726W or perhaps 30:55.265N, 95:20.590W
Houston, Texas "The city with too much Oxygen"
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