Thread: Electric VS Mechanical cooloing fans

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An electric fan is what you use when the stock one isn't cuttin it. I have three on my sbc s. They all run kooler.i don't care what they tell you they won't let you down like a stock fan, that speeds up-----then down .up then down . Having the same amount of air at all times fixes heating woes.My stock LT-1 motor came with one so it has one as well, never been a problem. When building a hot rod whatever!! . these components should be thought out carefully.. as over heating in a street rod, is not an uncommon occurence, just because someone picks up a fan and sez "there this oughta do it" doesn't mean it will do the job..I've seen this more times than i can count. If the new car manufacturers use them on their cars [most all] they have to be right ..right JMO

As is in my case sinse I didnot move the small block back, face of pulley to rad is 1/4 inch, ( Lower left of pic )so I have a 16 inch spal pusher in the front, it will not come on til I get into traffic, comes on at 185 and usually stays in and around 200...

I run electric fans for a couple of reasons besides the fact I think they work better. One of the reasons is that I don't run hoods and don't want a spinning weedwacker when I am fooling around with timing, or other chores. The other reason is that I have seen the results of a fan blade exploding. A guy I know with a 50 Ford was driving along and there was a terrible explosion under the hood. One of the fan blades sheered off and imbedded itself into the hood. I saw the gash it put in there and can only imagine what one would do if it had no hood to contain it.

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