Reading about electric fans and.....
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Reading about electric fans and.....
I found this artical on a lighting page, though that the numbers on horsepower gain might be a bit much???
http://www.teamjdm.com/id23_m.htm
just scroll down twoard the bottom
The text states that the mechanical fan uses 15-18HP, plus with the electic fan it states that you may see up to 2 more MPG!
Now that sounds a bit much to me, but even if it's only half right, maybe the electric fan is a nice upgrade. They sell it for $455 so it is most likley a bit cheaper somewhere else.
The headers are also nice, but way too much money for me right now...
I would really like to hear from anyone else out there that can clear this up a bit, agree disagree with these statements.
Also anyone who has put the electric fan on, please let me know what you think of an electirc fan. Plus I live in San Diego and it is not unusual to get over a 100 degrees around here in the summer. So that would be a condideration as far as cooling goes.
FYI, they say if you have an A/C that there is an extra switch/relay to kick the fan on when switching the A/C on.
http://www.teamjdm.com/id23_m.htm
just scroll down twoard the bottom
The text states that the mechanical fan uses 15-18HP, plus with the electic fan it states that you may see up to 2 more MPG!
Now that sounds a bit much to me, but even if it's only half right, maybe the electric fan is a nice upgrade. They sell it for $455 so it is most likley a bit cheaper somewhere else.
The headers are also nice, but way too much money for me right now...
I would really like to hear from anyone else out there that can clear this up a bit, agree disagree with these statements.
Also anyone who has put the electric fan on, please let me know what you think of an electirc fan. Plus I live in San Diego and it is not unusual to get over a 100 degrees around here in the summer. So that would be a condideration as far as cooling goes.
FYI, they say if you have an A/C that there is an extra switch/relay to kick the fan on when switching the A/C on.
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Did you by chance talk to Mike at Performance Products (the superchip guy)? He is offering an electric fan upgrade for ~$360 that uses dual controllers so that one fan is on all of the time when the air conditioning is running. You might want to send him an email.
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I have the Flex-A-Lite 270 kit ( before the PPI kit was shipping en mass ), and I am nothing but happy with it.
I won't have my next Dyno pull until 14-SEP, so I cannot comment on what the actual HP increase is, but once you put them on, you can tell a difference via the SOTP dyno, and your ear ( sorry that is all I have right now to provide as a comparison...albeit useless info
).
The MPG, I need to do a serious look at this to get an idea of the increase, so I cannot comment one way or another. Mine might actually be worse, due to putting my foot into it more
The FLX-270 kit from summit is 389.99 with 7.95 flat rate handling, no shipping costs. Also the last catalog I got had a not that you got a free trans cooler with a 270 kit purchase. If you need one or want to upgrade the stock one, this might be a help.
The FLX-270 kit has inputs on teh controller for :
AC enable.
Fan run at 60%
Fan off ( water crossings ).
Set a single temp for the 60% run, the fans then run at 100% if the temp increases 10* at the 60% run speed.
In Chicago, we get 100+ days with humidity so I think these would wrok fine for you in SoCA.
I won't have my next Dyno pull until 14-SEP, so I cannot comment on what the actual HP increase is, but once you put them on, you can tell a difference via the SOTP dyno, and your ear ( sorry that is all I have right now to provide as a comparison...albeit useless info
).The MPG, I need to do a serious look at this to get an idea of the increase, so I cannot comment one way or another. Mine might actually be worse, due to putting my foot into it more
The FLX-270 kit from summit is 389.99 with 7.95 flat rate handling, no shipping costs. Also the last catalog I got had a not that you got a free trans cooler with a 270 kit purchase. If you need one or want to upgrade the stock one, this might be a help.
The FLX-270 kit has inputs on teh controller for :
AC enable.
Fan run at 60%
Fan off ( water crossings ).
Set a single temp for the 60% run, the fans then run at 100% if the temp increases 10* at the 60% run speed.
In Chicago, we get 100+ days with humidity so I think these would wrok fine for you in SoCA.
