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Engine OG “Quickie Cooler” Fan/WP Drive

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I went looking through my cache of old parts and I dug out a late 90’s Quickie Cooler electric fan and water pump drive kit. This was advertised in the magazines back in the day as a budget solution to swap when running at the track.
It ran a short belt to bypass the power steering and water pump. The 1/2 inch timing belt took care of the fan and water pump while running a custom alum underdrive pulley. The motor was the small Moroso water pump drive that has been around forever and was mounted with a custom bracket. The Quickie Cooler pulls about 8 amps when under load.

So I‘m wondering if one of you that has a stack of old MM&FF magazines could happen to find an advertisement for this kit. They usually took out a small ad in the back. I don’t have any documentation or provenance for my kit and wound really like to have some. They might have also been in Super Ford or 5.0 magazine too. I purchased my Quickie Cooler used online in 2000 after I went to buy one and the company had closed. Any help would be appreciated, as my stack of old magazines has been lost to time.

Now the tech: I’m going to a dyno day next week and I made some pulls there last year while running the full accessory drive. Put down 290/334 last year. So next weeks
pulls will be made with a short belt and the vintage Quickie Cooler spinning the clutch fan and water pump. No other changes have been done to the engine or drivetrain. How much do you think it will pick up?

I’m looking to see truly how much an electric fan, Meziere water pump, and Volvo electric power steering package would do for me before I start spending money.
 

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General karthief

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair
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8hp, 15 to 20hp no PS pump
 
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General karthief said:
8hp, 15 to 20hp no PS pump
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I'm going to bypass the power steering pump with the short belt, so I was hoping for a cumulative 15 rwhp / 10 rwtq.

Techmotion did a dyno test bypassing the power steering pump and it was worth 6 rwhp / 6 rwtq, so we'll see what I can pull out of it.


 

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The Michigan weather cooperated yesterday and the Dyno Day at Walsh Motorsports / D&D Performance was a great success. It was interesting to hear from a few people who also remembered the Quickie Cooler from back in the day. The best comment was from Don Walsh Jr. who said he and his father Don Sr. ran them at the track and they were worth a solid tenth, all the time. He had never ran one on the Dynojet, so he was interested to see what it would show. A bunch of guys hadn't seen one before and the general vibe was positive to see what the old school mod was worth. It accentuated how far we have come over the years.

The bottom line was the car pulled 309 rwhp / 349 rwtq. This is +19/+15 gain over last year's pull of 290/334 when running the full factory pulley set (no underdrives). There were no other changes done to the car so this was a fairly apples to apples comparison. The last time I ran a Quickie Cooler on a Dynojet the car put down 286/334 with my GT40 Iron 3-Bars. So a little bench racing math makes a solid case for the AFR 165 head swap from GT40 Iron 3-Bars to have been worth roughly +23/+15.

Combo: Stock Ford Service short block, stock cam w/1.72's, Pro-M 77mm MAS, 24# injectors, X3Z w/Moates chip, Accufab 65mm TB, GT40 Tubular w/ported lower, AFR 165's, 1 5/8" longtubes, X-Pipe, DynoMax Super Turbos w/tails, T5, 3.73's.
 
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