Is this the one yall are talkin about?
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...k=Search_620-104_5003920_2279&keyword=620-104
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...k=Search_620-104_5003920_2279&keyword=620-104
Is this the one yall are talkin about?
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...k=Search_620-104_5003920_2279&keyword=620-104
They're only $100 on Amazon and Rock Auto.
Is this the one yall are talkin about?
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...k=Search_620-104_5003920_2279&keyword=620-104
Both mine and Knuckleduster came out 2000 something mercury cougars v6 cars with harnesses and resistors.
I was checking the specs on the Dakota fan controller and noticed there is no AC control. Is there a controller that will kick the fans on with the AC compressor?
the best advice i can give is don't install an electric fan.
The best advice I can give is don't install an electric fan.
^^^^^^^^^^this!^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh good, another useless comment. :banghead:
There are several people in this thread that are successfully running electric fans on their cars, myself included.
I installed the contour electric fans on my car because the mechanical fan wasn't cutting it. The stock fixed blade mechanical fan didn't move enough air. I didn't have enough room to run a fan clutch with the 3 core radiator. The flex fan I installed moved too much air, and the drag it was causing on the pulley was throwing my fan belt every time I stabbed the throttle. It's not about flowing the most air, it's about flowing the right amount at the right time.
My electric fans perform flawlessly. My car warms up faster because it isn't pushing air through the engine compartment at idle. I don't toss the stupid fan belt when I stab the throttle anymore. And once my car is warmed up, the water temperature is pretty much always between 190 and 200*F, regardless of whether its 20* outside or 110*, and I have driven the car in both of those conditions.
No, not everyone needs to run an electric fan. But some do, and it can, and HAS, been done successfully.
It's interesting that contrary opinions, however knowledge based they may be, are judged to be "useless". It has been stated on here at least a thousand times that with clearance available, the combination of the right rad, the right shroud and the right fan will do the job of cooling well, is trouble free and IS done successfully every day.
Thanks! I love reading that old stuff.Might be worth 19 minutes of your time. For those that remember, don't worry about flipping the record, LOL................
It's interesting that contrary opinions, however knowledge based they may be, are judged to be "useless". It has been stated on here at least a thousand times that with clearance available, the combination of the right rad, the right shroud and the right fan will do the job of cooling well, is trouble free and IS done successfully every day.
Main electric cooling fans came into being ONLY because of front-wheel drive technology. With the engine mounted laterally, with the crankshaft and typically all the major accessory shafts parallel to the front axle, so as to directly drive the transaxle, a fan, mechanically mounted on an accessory pulley would blow sideways and would not face the radiator. This is why electric engine cooling fans had to be and are used virtually universally in front-wheel drive vehicles. Modern engines are designed and intended to run at much higher temperatures than in the past and the electric fan provides adequate cooling to that scale. The conversion of mechanical energy to electricity and back to mechanical rotary power with a fan motor is less efficient in a number of ways than a direct mechanical connection. Mechanical fans are still common in trucks, SUVs and some RWD cars presumably as a result of sound engineering judgement.
Thanks for your reply and I'm happy that you too have been able to cool your car that well with an electric fan setup. I never had any intention of starting or participating in a defensive pissing contest here so I'm done. You have what works for you and I have what works for me. So its all good. As an old racer/engine builder used to say to me: "Lessons are extra".