Electric fan install help.
It's interesting that contrary opinions, however knowledge based they may be, are judged to be "useless". It has been stated on here at least a thousand times that with clearance available, the combination of the right rad, the right shroud and the right fan will do the job of cooling well, is trouble free and IS done successfully every day.
The fact that you have a contrary opinion isn't useless, and the fact that you apparently disagree with the use of electric fans isn't why I said your comment was useless.
But your comment
is completely useless. Not because it's contrary, but because you didn't explain your reasoning and you provided no knowledge or evidence on the subject that might help someone make an informed decision. If your comment was based on knowledge, by all means explain. My guess is that it's not based on
knowledge though, it's based on your bad
experience with electric fans. And while there are many reasons your negative experience with electric fans could be useful, it by itself doesn't prove that electric fans are a bad idea.
The simple fact is that there are millions of cars out there with electric fans. Millions. Every car with a transverse engine, and nowadays most trucks too. That by itself doesn't mean electric fans are better, but it obviously demonstrates that electric fans can and do work. And there are several folks here, again, myself included, that are successfully using electric fans. It can be done, and when done properly they can work just as well or better than mechanical fans. That has been my experience, my car cools far better now than with any of the mechanical fans I used.
There are a lot of factors to consider, which is why not all electric fan combinations work. Not all mechanical fan combinations work either though. Ma Mopar never put a 340 that cranked out over 400 hp in a production vehicle, and never made a production Duster (or Demon) than had an engine that made over 400hp
period, let alone with a small block. So, when I want to drive a 400+ hp small block in stop and go traffic when it's 110*F out, there's no reason to expect the factory engineered cooling system will keep up. And it
didn't. My contour electric fans and 3 core aluminum radiator do. Obviously it requires more effort than just slapping on a set of electric fans, there has to be some fairly serious upgrades to the electric system. And electric fans aren't for everyone or every application. But they do work, so just saying "don't do it" isn't a useful comment.