Show me your front oil cooler shrouding, and your front cooler install pics Options

[Aaron Cox]

Show one, show all! show me your front cooler pics!

thx fellers
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[Brian Mifsud]

QUOTE (RON S. @ Feb 16 2006, 04:05 AM)

Backside, I boxed the area under the oc,and also under the floor pan along the 2 ribs that run front to back under the front floor pan. You can't believe how structurally stiff the front pan area has now become with those 2 mods.

Ron,

I'd carefully watch those pancake/tubeaxial fans. I've worked with using those things for 15 years in various cooling capacities. They don't take shock very well since they are designed for cooling computers. Most have only sleeve bearings. I see 2 out of 3 are possibly Pabst EBM brand, but can't read the label. They tend to be the best quality in that category, but we get dead fans all the time from being bumped. Keep an eye on them and verify that they are ACTUALLY running..


Also I I may suggest.. the spaces between the fans and the ends of your heat exchanger ought to be blocked off.. otherwise you'll be recirculating the air between the front hood area and outside.

A better performer, if you can spare the space... build yourself a little manifold at least a couple of inches deep and mount the fans to that instead of directly on the cooler. That will insure even cooling on your whole oil cooler and better efficiency.