Who is using an oil deflector under the intake?

zsn0w said

I agree that it's good to be wary about who you believe and where their interests lay, but I believe their numbers based off what I've seen from their programming and read from them in articles. They seem to know what their doing, and I have chosen to trust them. Whether or not other people do is up to them. I think a lot of this kind of stuff is splitting hairs, but that's the point. Trying to find how much of an improvement something makes and at what cost. And the extra resistance to turn the alternator will be nowhere near the resistance of a fan.

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...and they may well know what they're doing. Did they compare what they supposedly gained from the loss of the crank driven fan with the added alternator load? I bet not. As smart as those guy are "supposed" to be, I'm sure at least one thought of it, yet it didn't get done. I wonder why? It could be because that addition to the testing would either have shown the change to the electric fan either negated the horse power gain eliminating the crank driven fan gave, or it would have been so close, there would really be no reason to change.

Now, I'm not against electric fans. They have their place. If I am alive long enough to get my project RobKat running, it will likely have one, but only because of space limitations. What I do chuckle at are all these threads titled "Help my car is overheating" or some such. Then you get into the thread and discover they've installed some bullcrap fan that moves 1900 CFM. Happens all the time.

IMO, IF YOU HAVE THE ROOM a crank driven works better, all other fans be damned and I'm sticking to it.