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Re: Cooling the Spit

To: Douglas Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Subject: Re: Cooling the Spit
From: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:50:44 +0100
Doug, George,


The most efficient place for a fan is behind the rad - not in front of it...

If the fan is in front of the rad it just blocks the "natural fan" of 
the air coming in the front of the grill...

However as Doug says - the stock fan should work perfectly well - it's 
likley to be something causing this other than the fans.


James

69 Signal Red Spit



Douglas Braun wrote:

>Maybe you should temporarily refit the stock fan (removing the electric ones),
>and see if that makes any difference.  Then you would know if the problem was
>due to insufficient fanning or something else.
>
>If you really must have an electric fan, maybe a single big one on the front
>of the radiator would work better.  Probably somebody on the list who has 
>actually done
>this can say how well it worked.
>
>I once removed my stock fan and drove a couple of miles to see if I could 
>detect a reduction
>in noise or an increase in power.  (Don't get stuck in traffic while doing 
>this!)  I could
>not detect any significant improvement, so I put my electric fan plans on the 
>back burner.
>
>Doug Braun
>'72 Spit

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