Best cooling electric fan
No. I'm saying that because a fan cools an engine a third the size doesn't mean it will keep a big-block Duster cool. Because it cools a 130hp 2 litre engine, that doesn't mean it will keep a 408ci stroker in a Dart with A/C cool in Texas.
Swing and a miss.
Does your engine put out the factory spec HP? If not, why would you think the factory cooling system would work? Wasn’t designed for it now was it?
Or how about, what was different between the cooling system of a 340 A-body and a 440 A-body? Same radiator core size for most options. Same exact fan. Same water pump vane count and diameter for the same options (ac vs non). Same pulley ratio for non-ac, very similar ratio for AC.
100 extra cubes and 100 HP more, same cooling system specs. It’s almost like there’s more to it than that.
Hopefully, the fans are good and not Chinesium. Of course...a stock clutch fan is cheaper and easier.
They’ve been on a car over a decade with no hiccups over nearly 50k miles so far.
I don't dislike electric fans, I simply understand that in many cases, they're just not the right tool for the job. I understand that many make more noise than airflow, are a hindrance on the highway, and draw lots of power. I also understand that I was sitting in traffic in 90-degree heat and never saw the high side of 190 on the gauge with nothing more than a V8 Aspen fan and a Hayden clutch! Yet again: I have found that the fancier the cooling system looks, the hotter the car usually runs.
Not the right tool for the job? So, um, what do all the high horsepower modern cars run? You know, the factory 600 hp+ cars that will run 200k miles? They all run mechanical fans? No. None of them do.
I’ve run my car in stop and go traffic in 110°+ weather, it was the only time the high speed setting has ever kicked on with my fans. Held the programmed temperature and kicked down to low speed after a minute.
But people do it. They don't realize that those move probably HALF the air my clutch fan pulls.
Sure, people that don’t have a clue what they need buy all kinds of stuff.
Just because Griffin markets an inadequate electric fan set up and people buy it doesn’t mean there aren’t electric fans out there that are more than capable of doing the job.
What is the rating on your clutch fan at idle RPM? What is its rating at 5,000 rpm? How much HP is it stealing at 60 mph when you don’t need it spinning at all?