Bwfox schrieb:
>
> Fellow Listers:
> I have been following the thread re electric vs directly driven fans on our
> beloved
> Triumphs. Someone made the observation that electric fans must be more
> efficient as all new cars use them. I do not believe efficiency has anything
> to do
> with newer vehicles using electric fans as much as the fact that almost all
> newer vehicles have transversely mounted engines. As the Corvair engineers
> (and owners) learned, V belts do not like to make 90 degree corners. You are
> forced to either put the radiator in the wheel well or leave it in its usual
> spot and use an electric fan. I vaguely remember back in the 60s a Fiat or
> Renault or Simca or somesuch with a rear mounted transverse engine with the
> radiator squarely in front of it, crank driven fan and all, with lots of
> ducts/louvres to get air back there.
>
> BTW, I plan to add an electric fan to my TR4A.
>
> Cheers,
> Barry W. Fox 65 TR4A CT51681L
> W1HFN
> N. Central Mass.
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Hello Barry and everybody,
there is a company called Mercedes Benz which still puts the engine the old way
behind the radiator and uses a belt driven fan. But this fan has an automatic
clutch which disconnects the fan at the times it is not needed. You see there
are really many brainstorming heads having a lot of ideas. They all just try to
find a way to take the load of the fan off even if it would be much easyer and
cheaper to keep a constant linked fan.
Gerhard
1969 TR 6
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