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Old 05-22-2006, 07:33 AM
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Undy

I did not check voltages, but will tonight for you.

Fred

I agree the top inlet shroud did the most good running at speed. The fan shroud only helped at idle. In fact I believe the fan shroud actually impedes the free air flow a little at speed since now the air is being forced past the fan only rather than free flowing across the whole radiator. I believe the fan shroud did help in traffic, but I am not sure a higher CFM fan would not have done the same thing. This would allow a little better flow at speed and still maintain stop and go temps (I think).

I will probably stick with what I have for now since it looks to do a pretty good job up to close to 100 degrees, and I can tell you I won't be driving it a lot at 100 degrees temps anyway!!! If I loose my fan I will go to a larger CFM and maybe take the fan shroud back off and see how it does.

I guess bottom line is the inlet shroud looks to be a must and if your fan covers most of the radiator without a shroud (like mine did) I would be using a fan of better than my 2350 CFM. Maybe one of the 3000 CFM styles without the shroud.

Bruce
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