borahshadow
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Dang this makes me want to do this. I would imagine that this would help out my gas mileage a lot. Especially in the winter months as it gets fairly cold where I live and I have a lot of cold starts. Example: my commute is about 7 miles and I can't even get any heat out of my truck for about the first 3/8 of the trip. If there wasn't a clutch fan constantly pulling cold air through there I bet it would get up to temp faster and I'd use less gas while it was cold (fan off).
I'll have to go to the local junk yard and ask about some of those fans. What should I look for exactly? Camaro's from the 90's? Any other models/ years that suitable fans come off of? Those eBay fans look pretty decent or at least the guy did a good job talking them up. I would probably need to run 2 of those 15 (14) fans right? Then I'd need the fan controler so I'd be looking about $90-$100 right?
I don't know if it would be possible (or practical) but it seems like it would be sweet to have duals that don't have to come on at the same time. Example: The first fan comes on at temp #1 and the second comes on at temp #2 but they both stay on until the temp is back to the bottom of temp #1 range. Also have fan #2 come on with the A/C regardless of temp. That sounds like a sweet setup to still provide adequite cooling under heavy/ hot loads (towing in the summer heat with the A/C on ) but under light loads it would have a very minimal load on the system thus helping to boost the MPG as much as possible. Would that be possible with only one thermostat and just a more complicated relay/harness system?
To those who have done this how did the noise compare to your stock duty fan clutch? I had a heavy duty fan clutch on at one point and it was louder than all get out. I put the stock (light) duty one back on and it is much better so as long as the E-fan wasn't louder I would be fine. If it was quieter it would be great!
BTW what is the ideal temperature operating range?
Ps. I drive a Vortec 350
I'll have to go to the local junk yard and ask about some of those fans. What should I look for exactly? Camaro's from the 90's? Any other models/ years that suitable fans come off of? Those eBay fans look pretty decent or at least the guy did a good job talking them up. I would probably need to run 2 of those 15 (14) fans right? Then I'd need the fan controler so I'd be looking about $90-$100 right?
I don't know if it would be possible (or practical) but it seems like it would be sweet to have duals that don't have to come on at the same time. Example: The first fan comes on at temp #1 and the second comes on at temp #2 but they both stay on until the temp is back to the bottom of temp #1 range. Also have fan #2 come on with the A/C regardless of temp. That sounds like a sweet setup to still provide adequite cooling under heavy/ hot loads (towing in the summer heat with the A/C on ) but under light loads it would have a very minimal load on the system thus helping to boost the MPG as much as possible. Would that be possible with only one thermostat and just a more complicated relay/harness system?
To those who have done this how did the noise compare to your stock duty fan clutch? I had a heavy duty fan clutch on at one point and it was louder than all get out. I put the stock (light) duty one back on and it is much better so as long as the E-fan wasn't louder I would be fine. If it was quieter it would be great!
BTW what is the ideal temperature operating range?
Ps. I drive a Vortec 350