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keep in mind don, you're working with 300 lbs. of pressure and you need a fan blowing across the cond, when the ac is on, to keep the head pressure down.

I've hear a lot of talk about how early Ford type radiators suffer from the need to have the fan up high at the top while the standard SBC fan is down low. What if I have a shroud with the fan at the bottom and the condenser inside the shroud at the top of the radiator? Another way might be to have the condenser down low with an electric fan up high. I would like to avoid the electric fan but I am aware that the '29 style radiator is small. It sounds like I am talking myself into an electric fan up high to cool the engine coolant and have the condenser below the electric fan in the inside bottom of the radiator. Which is preferable in your practical experience? DennyW's idea about a junkyard condenser from an import is worth considering. Dave I have talked to a tech guy at Vintage Air and they rate a remote condenser as unworkable; while Hot Rod Air in Texas says it can be done. Maybe the idea of a high electric fan and a low condenser inside might work.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder