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    View Poll Results: What are peoples thoughts:

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    • Add some slots to allow the air out?

      0 0%
    • Add some square holes that are covered by flappers like what some factory shrouds have?

      2 100.00%
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    1. #1
      Join Date
      Dec 2009
      Location
      Austin, TX
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      Country Flag: United States

      Slots in the Shroud or Flappers?

      I am getting ready to swap my leaking stock radiator out with a new aluminum one I got.
      I already have an electric fan with shroud and figure since I am making the swap I should consider adding some high speed flow through slots or flaps on to the shroud.
      In case I have not given enough details about what I am referring to: these allow air to pass through the shroud when you are driving down the highway because there is not enough pass through with the fan running. They also eliminate turbalance from the fan fighting the air being pushed through the radiator from driving 60-80 MPH.



    2. #2
      Join Date
      Feb 2009
      Location
      muggy midwest
      Posts
      533
      Country Flag: United States
      if your fan covers enough of the area itself, then you shouldn't need flappers. In other words, ideally the fans themselves should be open to the majority of the fin area and not the shroud itself. If the fan has the right style of contour and the shroud to match-they together act as an air funnel so they don't act as an air dam. Post of pic of what you got just for s and g's.
      "...if at first you don't succeed, try again.
      If you still don't succeed, then quit-no sense being a damn fool about it..."
      -W.C. Fields

      HARNESSWORX
      (formerly gmachinz)


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