I've been using an electric fan on my race Healey for many years. Gives a
me an extra 29.016532 HP, substantially improved the handling, tire wear,
brake wear, and I never break any spokes. Oooops, almost forgot. It really
does help on cooling (compared to the fan), especially racing down here in
the wonderful Republic of Texas. Another point (even tho' I've been told
it's impolite to point), is that if you do sorta', kinda', not really on
purpose of course, and entirely due to someone else's fault, scrunch (a
techie race term) the front you don't end up with the fan in the radiator.
Cheers,
Fred
Team Healey Texas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of PG
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 12:25 PM
> To: 'healeys'
> Subject: [Healeys] electrc fan vs. belt drive
>
> I'm also on a Triumph forum where a few people have claimed that the
> installation of an electric cooling fan (and elimination of belt drive
> fan) has increased their Power by about 7%.
>
>
>
> They claim that the drag created by the fan on the waterpump pulley
> creates a power loss that is more than the power loss due to the burden
> on the Alternator/generator created by the electric fan.
>
>
>
> Anybody have any thoughts?
>
>
>
> Paul
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