e-fan swap

[twitchee2]

Well i busted my fan in lake arrowhead which took out my radiator. I finally got my fan on friday. its from a thunderbird, people say it pulls 4000cfm on high speed and 2500 on low. I got it all mounted today not sure how i like it though. i think i need to fix the shoud a little. let me know what you think. Oh yeah, its kind of a tight squeeze thats for sure. Im using the stock shoud. we will see how it works. here are some pics.

heres the old stuff.

 

[Reina]

Looks good. I like the idea of having a fan that you can control, so it won't be wasting engine power when it is not needed or splash water when doing some deep water crossing.

When I did a similar conversion to my old Nissan pathfinder, I had a Nissan quest fan and custom fitted to the Nissan pathfinder radiator. I did find that it did not cool the engine as well as the engine driven fan.
But that could just be me.

 

[twitchee2]

what do you guys think about the gap between the fan and the shoud??? is it too much. thats the one thing i dont like about it and its holding me back from going to wiring it up and flush the system and have my truck back

 

[drinknmolson]

what do you guys think about the gap between the fan and the shoud??? is it too much. thats the one thing i dont like about it and its holding me back from going to wiring it up and flush the system and have my truck back

I would mount it up and try it out, it looks a little big but should work fine.

 

[twitchee2]

Well i ended up scraping that whole setup and used the stock shroud off the T-bird and chopped up my stocker to add to it as well. came out really nice. I got it all wired up and it works great. Unfortunately i didnt take many pics but ill see what i can do tomorrow, i gotta flush the whole coolant system still and clean up all the wiring. but it came out SWEET and good god it pulls some air.

 

[flyte74]

Glad you're close to being up and running again! Flush that bad boy out nice and good because I'm not sure how good a job that sock did at filtering the water!

 

[brian2sun]

Glad you're close to being up and running again! Flush that bad boy out nice and good because I'm not sure how good a job that sock did at filtering the water!

:thumb3:

 

[twitchee2]

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hahah oh yeah, i put about 6 gallons of water through it, that water came out nasty. i only put half a water bottle in the overflow and it didnt use it as far as i know. but im back up and running woot woot and i have no clue whether its got more power or not...ive been driving the v8 around for the last 3 weeks haha