Steve & Scott,
What happened to the vaunted 5-bladed Volvo fan solution? There was a
lot of buzz about that adaptation on this site a year or so back. Didn't
rate a Walter's mention, though.
I was told by the hardware guy when I was buying some ceiling fans that the
asymetrical 5-blade design moved much more air than the 4-blade. And it is
true that all the current ceiling fans have 5 blades, while the earlier ones
were all 4 blades. Does this apply to auto fan blades? Is an old Volvo junk
fan no longer the way to go???
Al J.
Steve Laifman wrote:
> Scott,
>
> There is nothing at all wrong with the Tiger shroud. It could have it's
> performance enhanced, slightly, by making a removable connection across
> the bottom shroud gap, taking care to avoid the area between the fan and
> the rack by carefully forming and cutting of the "bridge".
>
> With all due respect to Dan Walters article, I happen to have had a
> great deal of luck, even with the best of radiators and Canadian Ford
> Fan, with a high quality pusher electric fan for traffic crawls and long
> slow hills. Now I absolutely agree with him that neither the Canadian
> Fan, or the electric fan, are of any major value over 30 mph, but under
> the conditions described, they do the job, according to my gauge. Simple
> on-off switch. Covered in TigersUnited Forum. Set your pull down windows
> for messages older than just 30 days.
>
> For really tough conditions, I have a hidden air guide for the lower
> valence, and horn hole blockers, with horn feed-through.
>
> Not sure what the effect of a missing surge tank is, as I have that and
> a coolant recovery system, but have been told that the filler on the
> right hand tank is the "correct" design.
>
> Steve
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