high water temp issues

There's 2 issues when considering an electric fan.

1. space available. If you'll look at Solracmopar's setup you'll see he barely had room to squeeze the clutch fan in. Most good high perf. electric fans are on the order of 4+ inches thick. On my Cuda I only had 2-3/4" between the water pump and radiator. Could only find a couple lower perf. fans that would fit and I tried the best one I could find and it didn't cool as well as a clutch fan with a shroud.

2. Make sure your electrical system is up to snuff when you install an electric fan or you'll have at least a melted wiring harness, at worse a fire. The fan I tried on my car only pulled 14 amps yet that was enough to melt the factory connector where the fusible link connects. The wiring harness was almost new too, not an old piece of junk. The factory harnesses that directs alternator charging power through the bulkhead to the ammeter then back through the bulkhead to the fusible link then to the battery is a weak system. Too many connections with light duty parts but when these cars were new they didn't have much current draw on them so it was sufficient. I do agree that it looked much better with an electric fan setup and if it would have cooled as well I would have upgraded the wiring like the mod on www.madelectrical.com shows.

I fully agree with you Fishy68. I still don't know how I managed to get the stock fan clutch set up to fit. The old radiator was 2 core and this one is 3 so there's even less room than before. I'm going to call Geoff at Ledfoot to see if they sell a shroud that would work with my 7 blade fan. I think that would just about do it. No telling what the car will do when summer officially arrives in central florida. Humidity + Heat can cause triple digit numbers that I'm guessing my car shouldn't be part of anyway.

Drove the car again this morning on my usual route to drop my daughter off at school. What would of normally been a 220 temp at stop lights I was running 175-180.

As far as installing an electrical fan to my stock harness set up, I think I'd rather save it for my end goal which is a vintage air system.