[Healeys] Fan ideas

[John Soderling]

My plastic "Texas Cooler" fan is very quiet.  I've been around cars with the 
six-blade SS fan and they are quite noisy, much noisier than the plastic 
flex fan.
Vrooom vrooom,
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve B. Gerow" <steveg at abrazosdata.com>
To: <RonFineEsq at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Healeys Newsgroup" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fan ideas


> Ron,
> First of all have to say the person who advocated drilling any kind of 
> holes
> in their stock fan is out of line. This could be a recipe for disaster!
>
> I have the 6-bladed SS fan BCS sells (might be Moss). The hub and rivets 
> in
> this fan are very stout, especially since the fan blades are lightweight
> compared to the original Queen Mary-style blades. They also sell a spacer
> needed to move it closer to the radiator.
>
> I'm also using a beefed Kilmartin fan shroud that fits tight against the
> radiator and allows less leakage than the one BCS sells. In addition, I
> added a blanking plate across the area between the radiator and front of 
> the
> hood opening.
>
> They do make a lot of fan noise.  They sound similar to my wife's original
> 240Z with a stock plastic fan on a hydraulic clutch--I've always thought
> these fans have a funky sound--when the car makes more fan noise than
> anything else.
>
> I'll bet the plastic fans make the same level of noise.
>
> The solution to this on the Healey is simple--just add a louder exhaust or
> rev it up higher in gears :-).
> -- 
> Steve Gerow
> Pasadena CA
> 59 BN6