Electric or mech fan?
First and foremost grab yourself a homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookie and let me tell you you need to look at the whole cooling system. And it doesn't have to be overly expensive....
Okay this is solely what I do for my car and how it works for me... First the thermostat I have a gutted thermostat. for those that drive in the winter and use their heat and wanted to get hot quick this is probably not the way to go. Then my coolant, I use distilled water and one bottle of redline water wetter. Hands down water is the best coolant... I only drive my car on nice days and it's kept in a climate-controlled garage again this is what works for me. I measured for the biggest radiator I could possibly stuff in the car between the frame rails knowing I don't have a battery up front... I took those measurements and punch them in Summit under two core radiators and came up with the $159 radiator that I have... I bought a $30 Chevy style shroud for the top of it.. as you can see I only had about 3 in for a fan so I kept my criteria in the 3-inch range and still had to offset it so that didn't butt against the water pump pulley. I have that hook to a thermostat that's hooked to a relay... The car can get easily below 180 well on the freeway and the fan keeps it generally about 190 or less on a mildly hot day but on a 99 or a hundred degree day I have seen up to 200 and 205... I generally don't travel on those days anyways as there's nowhere I want to go and get out of the car anyways... I know added yet another radiator which is actually a condenser for the AC and that came with a 12 inch Pusher fan. Pusher fans are 20% less efficient but I have it there none the less as it came in the package and it is all very tight fitting...
This is on a 410 Stroker....
First and foremost grab yourself a homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookie and let me tell you you need to look at the whole cooling system. And it doesn't have to be overly expensive....
Okay this is solely what I do for my car and how it works for me... First the thermostat I have a gutted thermostat. for those that drive in the winter and use their heat and wanted to get hot quick this is probably not the way to go. Then my coolant, I use distilled water and one bottle of redline water wetter. Hands down water is the best coolant... I only drive my car on nice days and it's kept in a climate-controlled garage again this is what works for me. I measured for the biggest radiator I could possibly stuff in the car between the frame rails knowing I don't have a battery up front... I took those measurements and punch them in Summit under two core radiators and came up with the $159 radiator that I have... I bought a $30 Chevy style shroud for the top of it.. as you can see I only had about 3 in for a fan so I kept my criteria in the 3-inch range and still had to offset it so that didn't butt against the water pump pulley. I have that hook to a thermostat that's hooked to a relay... The car can get easily below 180 well on the freeway and the fan keeps it generally about 190 or less on a mildly hot day but on a 99 or a hundred degree day I have seen up to 200 and 205... I generally don't travel on those days anyways as there's nowhere I want to go and get out of the car anyways... I know added yet another radiator which is actually a condenser for the AC and that came with a 12 inch Pusher fan. Pusher fans are 20% less efficient but I have it there none the less as it came in the package and it is all very tight fitting...
This is on a 410 Stroker....
