[hotrodjohn71]

My 1967 Firebird has an aluminum Champion radiator with a Flexalite Black Magic puller fan. This fan setup has a shroud with the fan and attaches to the back of the radiator nicely.
I am not running the stock belt driven 4 blade fan or the stock shroud.
I am not having any overheating issues but I wonder what the consensus would be on installing the steel 4 blade fan to the water pump without the stock aluminum fan spacer (for clearance reasons) just for additional cooling along with the Flexalite setup.

 

[johnsongrass1]

First of all the fan is likely to hit the power steering pump or something else nearby and then there's the consideration of the electric fan being a restriction to the point where it's totally pointless except for lopping off fingers and making noise.
I am not a fan of the fan idea.
lastly, why are you trying to improve a set up that is currently working flawlessly. Are you trying to break it?

 

[d.b. cooper]

Also, if you're not using a shroud with the mechanical fan, then will the mechanical fan really cool much?

If we could use a football analogy, this is sort of like punting on first down......

How many cubes you got?

 

[BogiesAnnex1]

If it isn’t needed it’s just an unnecessary horsepower drain that avoiding is the whole point of the electric fan.

Bogie

 

[Ford blue blood]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.....

 

[hotrodjohn71]

Thank you . Good points all around.

 

[d.b. cooper]

How many cubes you got?

More importantly, how old are you? You remind me of a midwest grandma/grandpa----always doing more than necessary.

My ma always used to wrap the garbage very neatly. Who cares???? It's TRASH!!!

 

[hotrodjohn71]

You're right. I'm just overthinking things.
50 years old

 

[Ford blue blood]

Good friend (old time hot rodder) always worried that his car was "over heating" if it went over 160 ( we are in AL). He would spend hours messing with every one of them he owned to keep the temperature that low!

Burney, if it ain't loosing water it ain't overheating! Finally got him to think a little loser about that when I put a temp reader on his Town Car and showed him the top of the radiator was 225* and no water was coming out.