Had to do a little trimming of the shroud and make a set of custom brackets, but it all bolts up fine. Overflow bottle also needed a custom bracket, but it fits in nearly the stock location.
Yes, mine is a Fox body.
Steve, are you running underdrive pulleys by chance? I had them on mine and found they were unable to keep pace with the demands of my fan (even after the 150A 3G conversion). I could always see the draw on the electrical system when my lights would dim as the fan kicked on and hear it speed up as I brought it up above idle. Even with the smallest alternator pulley possible, it still wouldn't keep up until I switched back to the stock pulleys.
Had to do a little trimming of the shroud and make a set of custom brackets, but it all bolts up fine. Overflow bottle also needed a custom bracket, but it fits in nearly the stock location.
Yes, mine is a Fox body.
Steve, are you running underdrive pulleys by chance? I had them on mine and found they were unable to keep pace with the demands of my fan (even after the 150A 3G conversion). I could always see the draw on the electrical system when my lights would dim as the fan kicked on and hear it speed up as I brought it up above idle. Even with the smallest alternator pulley possible, it still wouldn't keep up until I switched back to the stock pulleys.
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Back in Sept. 2010 thought I had this whipped....
Now the problem... On the Hot Rod tour when i came to a long line of cars, (stop and go), with the air on the car would start slowly start overheating. Turn the air off and would stay at that temp for a little while then slowly start down. It was warm and I didn't like it....
Thinking of adding a pusher fan to the front of the radiator, a Derale 16214 Electric Fan, Single, 14 in. Diameter, 2,100 cfm, along with a, Derale 16759 Fan Control, Thermostatic, Adjustable, 150 to 240 Degrees, Kit. Car Normal temp. is 195 degrees.
Thought I would put it on the passenger side in front of the radiator and push more air through....
Questions
Will this work??
Good luck man. I just spoke to one of the higher ups here who is over the fab shop where they make the radiators. A little background... he was a crew chief for John Hancock (Indy car driver) and chief mechanic for Emerson Fittipaldi (I know you've heard of him). He said a push pull will help, but two fans on the same side would work better. If you want me to ask someone who worked on a more familiar Indy car team as a crew chief let me know and I can go higher up and get you the same answers
I really wish Ford had made the hood vents on the SN95 functional.
Me too! Those tiny stock vents are useless.
I think that the Ford Dual Contour Fan will wok better,plus I think it might be thinner also. Maybe we could look up what the Depth is on it to give you more info on it.
Good Luck!
Back in Sept. 2010 you didn't have 623rwhp either so now your engine produces more heat. An extra pusher fan will certainly increase airflow through the radiator but there's something else you can do that nobody has mentioned so far.
There are vents near the front of the hood on the GT500 models that are designed to allow hot underhood air to escape. They also allow the electric fans on the radiator to work more efficiently by venting the hot air that the fans have pulled through. If you position the vents right above the space between the radiator and the engine, any water from rain or carwashing will just drip onto the ground and not harm any underhood components.
By the time you get this pusher fan installed it will have cooled off and you'll have no idea if it worked or not until next year
Those vents aren't going to do much when you are sitting at a stop light. If your coolant is flowing as best it can, and your radiator is cooling well the only thing that is going to help you is the fan. If it were me, and I were set on adding a pusher, I would mount it temporarily and see what happens when you move it around. There will be an optimal location for the fan. I highly doubt it is directly over your current fan.
this. a push/pull setup will help, but a more efficient setup is to do two higher power fans. if the push fan has more flow than the pull, you'll create a pressure difference and actually hold back area from escaping through the rad. that might even cause more heat in the rad. i see this a lot in my data center. we have to balance the underfloor cold air pressure with the return hot air pressure otherwise servers will overheat. the server fans are the choke point and we have to balance against them. in your case the rad is your choke point. Now, i'm not saying this solution won't work as it appears that your borderline overheating only when you have the a/c on, the pusher might be just enough, but in theory it's not an ideal solution. but we all know how theory and reality aren't always true.
my solution would be to try and help hot air get out of the engine bay like bullit said and to do dual fans on the inside with a full shroud. also make sure you have enough opening in front of the car to allow the air to get to the rad.
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