I know this is not the section that this should be posted on but I figure most of you already have Mike Troyers electric fan kit. My question is will the single 16 inch electric fan be enought to cool a 97 v6 without a towing option or do I have to use the dual 16 inch setup. I am asking this because there is a $250 price difference in the two and I just want a fan that will cool a v6. I don't need something that cools a 700 horse engine. All help is appreciated.

 

Have you seen te Mad Enterprises e-fan kit. It has an RF-86 fan and shroud. It is for a ligntning so it should cool yours OK. Here is the link: MAD Fan kit

 

Not taking away from the Mad kit, but its $430...the TP dual fan kit is $369. It sounds like he is on a bit of a budget, so that might not be the best option.

 

The Troyer kit is definitely a quality kit. I was just suggesting the Mad Enterprises fan with the shroud as a good single fan unit. It can probably be ordered seperately and used with whichever controller you wish. Personally, I am going to go with the Flex a lite 270 duals with the shroud. I haven't yet decided which controller I like the best though.

 

I like the Troyer kit because of the quality, excelant instructions, and most importntly both fans are stand alone two fans two sensors two controlers, if one fails you are not going to have a problem in any temerature or heavy stop and go traffic. You can drive it untill ther is time to fix it. One fan will handle normal cooling and AC operation.

 

I have the Troyer Dual 16" Fan Kit and in the 100+ degree days of Tucson, AZ I only used one fan.

If you have a single 16" Fan Kit I would think you will be okay.

 

Personally, I think it's a serious mistake to go with any 16" single-fan setup. You have absolutely NO protection or backup from any kind of failure, and this is precisely why we don't just sell other people's kits. And there is no such thing as any kit that has *never* had a problem - not one.

We insist on dual 16" fans that have their OWN shrouds and that each have their own independent controller, as the cooling system is nothing to compromise - forget trying to save money by taking shortcuts or buying cheaper kits - if yo want to do that, then just stay stock, as sooner or later, it *will* bite you.

We engineered our kit to stand up to conditions that most vehicles will never see, simply because they need to withstand any conditions that any vehicle MIGHT see. It's plain common sense.

No, a single 16" fan is NOT enough to plan on using all the time to cool these vehicles, I disagree with that - there ARE conditions under which a single 16" fan will not do the job.

Now we have our 16" fan motors specially wound so that we pull CFM's thru the radiator that most companies can only get on a bench - now with *our* single 16" fan, it will take care of the cooling needs for everything short of towing thru the desert southwest, generally speaking - yet still, we will not even sell someone a single 16" fan & controller set up, and every one of our vehicles wears our complete dual 16" kit, as you can't find a better price for the quality of components we use.

Sorry if I sound like I'm coming off a bit strong, but this is one area where I'd rather lose any sale than see someone do something I felt wasn't right - it's up to each owner to decide for themselves, but this is one area where taking shortcuts just isn't a smart idea - if "cheap" is your inclination, then just stock with the stock cooling system.

Good luck!

 

Mike T.
As you know from another thread, I just got my XCAL2 from you for my 2000 Expy. I want to add your electric fan setup to my truck and have two fundamental questions.

1. How would you rate the difficulty level of this install?
2. Will I need to do anything with my XCAL2 tunes due to the addition of the e-fans?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

Hi Jeff - I found this thread - Mike talks about efan install level of expertise recommendations...

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...ighlight=efans

As for your second question - nope. You are just dumpin' some parasitic losses - the tunes will feel even better for it... as will your A/C.

Cheers
Grog

 

Hi Jeff,

As always, MGD is very helpful in his response, so I'll be brief............especially since our fan kits really don't fall into the topic of this section of the boards, so I don't want to get too far off track here!

1.) The difficulty level of installing our e-fan kit is about a 5-6 on a scale of 10, I'd say. It's not for the novice who has little to no experience under the hood, but it doesn't require a professional mechanic, in other words. Figure about a 3-4 hour install time. You need to have experience working under the hood, and doing some simple wiring connections, and then calibrating the turn-on temps of the fans (this is a simple set-screw adjustment on each fan's respective controller) - you need either an infrared point & shoot thermometer (the kind that shoots a visible beam on the target) or you can simply use any OBD-II scan tool to plug into the OBD-II port to get the Engine Coolant Temperature readings right from the PCM - you can calibrate either way. Everything is color-coded and documented step-by-step, so from that standpoint it's easy - it's just a project that requires some decent general automotive know-how under the hood and the ability to pay attention to detail.

2.) No, there are no tuning changes required.

If you want to go over the fan kit install in more detail, just give us a call at our number listed below.