Cooling issue on highway

Elec fans might have less parasitic drag, but they are useless if they do not keep the engine cool...

Which is why you have to size them correctly, run a proper controller and not just a toggle switch, and why they should be an assembly that was designed with their shroud.

My 340 is .060" over, runs 9.8:1 compression with iron heads, has pretty decent sized cam and makes somewhere north of 400 hp with the stock stroke. I've never even come close to overheating with my Ford Contour fan set up, and I have sat in traffic when it was 110°F out.

If your electric fans aren't cooling your engine, you have not picked the right electric fans for your set up.

Plastic electric fans overheat and melt, along with the restrictive full aluminum shrouds not a great setup.

Trapping engine heat in the radiator leading to an overheating situation.

I agree about the cookie sheet aluminum shrouds, those are terrible.

But if your electric fans are melting, you picked lousy electric fans.