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Originally posted by SCOBRAC
Man,
I hate to ask. How much room did you have? I hate to try to turn a sows ear back into a silk purse but I had a similar problem with my Contemporary and it's puller fan. I was able to fit a Flex-a-lite Black Magic fan between the steering rack and the fan. The original fan sat slightly above the rack in pinion tube and didn't cool particularly well.
The Black Magic fits quite well between the two with a custom bracket.
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It sounds like you had a similar problem to my customers car, if I'm reading you right. On the car in my shop he had the radiator right up against the rack, and then a terribly configured sway bar that had a big hoop going vertically in front of the radiator which just barely allowed an eletric fan to be shoe-horned in as a pusher. The pusher fan was installed as a bandaid, because the guy couldn't get the flexalite mechanical fan to cool it well enough. I took one look at it and wondered how many cooling systems the guy had worked on. The mechanical fan was pointing at the top tank with no hope of ever pulling any air through the core. It was a bad enough situation that designing a shroud to make it work was utterly hopeless.
I removed the swaybar (original application not known) and mechanical fan, then moved the radiator frame brackets forward and re angled them. I reinstalled the fan as a puller and now have just enough room for a swaybar with no bends or dips in the middle, if i drop it's brackets below the frame with some blocks. The bar in my picture is located right behind the crossmember where theres plenty of room.
This guy would have saved money buying a nicer kit and let me assemble the whole thing than to spend as much as he did on a poorly assembled cheap replica and have me fix everything. I'm taking some before and after pics, so if you need me to, I can post them.