Electric fan install help.
Looks like it's been done by kybatman. Hangs over the side a bit. If you have the open spots on the side, it will still work...doesn't look too awesome to me, but it's totally up to you.
On whether to have a mechanical fan vs electric fan...The electric fan, especially one with two motors is plenty reliable. Considering basically every FWD car has had one forever, and what's the failure rate (I've never touched one or known anyone who did), I'm not sure why you'd be worried about that. I have, however replaced a radiator, fan shroud and timing cover due to a bad fan clutch.
The contour one has bigtime flow. On my car the high speed has NEVER come on, it doesn't even heat up enough for that. If you flip it on manually (I use the A/C trigger), the car cools WAY down very fast. It's also usually never on when I'm moving above 10 mph and therefore robs 0 HP. If the fan was on at high speed and drawing even 40A, which I doubt it does, it would rob less than 2hp. I have yet to see a mechanical fan that can do that. And yes, your A/C will work better.
Looks like it's been done by kybatman. Hangs over the side a bit. If you have the open spots on the side, it will still work...doesn't look too awesome to me, but it's totally up to you.
On whether to have a mechanical fan vs electric fan...The electric fan, especially one with two motors is plenty reliable. Considering basically every FWD car has had one forever, and what's the failure rate (I've never touched one or known anyone who did), I'm not sure why you'd be worried about that. I have, however replaced a radiator, fan shroud and timing cover due to a bad fan clutch.
The contour one has bigtime flow. On my car the high speed has NEVER come on, it doesn't even heat up enough for that. If you flip it on manually (I use the A/C trigger), the car cools WAY down very fast. It's also usually never on when I'm moving above 10 mph and therefore robs 0 HP. If the fan was on at high speed and drawing even 40A, which I doubt it does, it would rob less than 2hp. I have yet to see a mechanical fan that can do that. And yes, your A/C will work better.