Electric Fan Bracketing (single)
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,255
Likes: 0
From: Manalapan FL
Found this thread:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=electric+fan
Pic links are DOA, but you might want to PM Gator454 for updates.
D. Ocean
Miami, FLA
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=electric+fan
Pic links are DOA, but you might want to PM Gator454 for updates.
D. Ocean
Miami, FLA
Thread Starter
Race Director
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 10,362
Likes: 5
From: San Diego - Deep Within The State of CONFUSION!
Originally Posted by 74FLCONV
Found this thread:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=electric+fan
Pic links are DOA, but you might want to PM Gator454 for updates.
D. Ocean
Miami, FLA
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=electric+fan
Pic links are DOA, but you might want to PM Gator454 for updates.
D. Ocean
Miami, FLA
Thread Starter
Race Director
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 10,362
Likes: 5
From: San Diego - Deep Within The State of CONFUSION!
Originally Posted by Simul8
Here's how I mounted my 16" Zirgo fan. I used carriage bolts and aluminum tubing as a spacer.
Instructor
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 147
Likes: 0
From: Hiram GA
Originally Posted by SanDiegoPaul
Looks simple enough! What did you screw the bolts into? Sheet metal on each side of the radiator?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 6,687
Likes: 1,364
in your pics above????...
simul8,
I can see the swaybar in your pics above; did you remove all the metal shielding that used to sit under the radiator/shroud when you installed the electric fans? Does it make any difference?
I can see the swaybar in your pics above; did you remove all the metal shielding that used to sit under the radiator/shroud when you installed the electric fans? Does it make any difference?
Racer
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 328
Likes: 0
From: Dallas County Texas
Wow! I hadn't thought of it like that!
I could just cut a few slots in the shroud at the edges and leave the shroud on and STILL have decent supports! (Here all I could think of were full vertical supports in front and back with things still going through the radiator.)
This changes EVERYTHING!!!!
THANKS!!!!
This changes EVERYTHING!!!!
THANKS!!!!
Last edited by WayneLBurnham; Apr 3, 2005 at 10:09 PM.
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvette Engines RANKED by Peak Torque (70+ Years of Muscle!)
Joe Kucinski
Corvette ZR1X Will Be Pacing the Indy 500, And Could Probably Race, Too!
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvettes Coming to Mecum Indy 2026!
Brett Foote
Top 10 C9 Corvette MUST-HAVES to Fix These C8 Generation Flaws!
Michael S. Palmer
10 Revolutionary 'Corvette Firsts' Most People Don't Know
Joe Kucinski
5 Reasons to Upgrade to an LS6-Powered Corvette; 5 Reasons to Stay LT2
Michael S. Palmer
2027 Corvette vs The World: Every C8 vs Its Closest Competitor
Joe Kucinski
10 Most Common Corvette Problems of the Last 20 Years!
Joe Kucinski
Instructor
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 147
Likes: 0
From: Hiram GA
Originally Posted by carriljc
simul8,
I can see the swaybar in your pics above; did you remove all the metal shielding that used to sit under the radiator/shroud when you installed the electric fans? Does it make any difference?
I can see the swaybar in your pics above; did you remove all the metal shielding that used to sit under the radiator/shroud when you installed the electric fans? Does it make any difference?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 7,720
Likes: 12
From: Chattanooga TN
I have a 76L-81 core support. I bolted the fan to the lip that sticks out on the bottom. On the top I made a step type bracket bolted to the stock upper radiator mounts and bolted the fan on the backside of that. Sorry, no photos.
Drifting
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,944
Likes: 20
From: The only Corvettes in Highett Victoria
Single fan shroud
Guys,
For my '74, I made a "buck" out of mdf and body filler, took a (female) mould in fibreglass off it and flopped out a fibreglass shroud to suit a 16" fan. It works great and if I can work out how to post photos here, I will get them on the site. I mounted it to the two corner bolts at the bottom of the rad. support bracket, but had to fabricate an upper bracket to mount the top of the shroud to the rad. support bracket using two of the original mounting holes.
No welding or cutting original Corvette parts, so completely reversible if wanted, but who'd go back to the old (dinosaur!!) system? I also used an adjustable thermostatic switch that has a sensor that fits into the air gap between the tube fins near the top rad. hose entry. The switch can be wired to come on with the ignition on only, or ign. on OR off, or when the A.C. is switched on or manually.
I'd be happy to make one to suit if anyone's interested, there's a few hours of labour and the cost of the 'glass plus air or sea freight to the U.S.A. I imagine it would be around the $200 mark. Let me know.
Regards from Down Under
aussiejohn
For my '74, I made a "buck" out of mdf and body filler, took a (female) mould in fibreglass off it and flopped out a fibreglass shroud to suit a 16" fan. It works great and if I can work out how to post photos here, I will get them on the site. I mounted it to the two corner bolts at the bottom of the rad. support bracket, but had to fabricate an upper bracket to mount the top of the shroud to the rad. support bracket using two of the original mounting holes.
No welding or cutting original Corvette parts, so completely reversible if wanted, but who'd go back to the old (dinosaur!!) system? I also used an adjustable thermostatic switch that has a sensor that fits into the air gap between the tube fins near the top rad. hose entry. The switch can be wired to come on with the ignition on only, or ign. on OR off, or when the A.C. is switched on or manually.
I'd be happy to make one to suit if anyone's interested, there's a few hours of labour and the cost of the 'glass plus air or sea freight to the U.S.A. I imagine it would be around the $200 mark. Let me know.
Regards from Down Under
aussiejohn
Pro
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 677
Likes: 5
From: Cary North Carolina
Originally Posted by 74FLCONV
Found this thread:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=electric+fan
Pic links are DOA, but you might want to PM Gator454 for updates.
D. Ocean
Miami, FLA
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...t=electric+fan
Pic links are DOA, but you might want to PM Gator454 for updates.
D. Ocean
Miami, FLA
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,472
Likes: 18
From: Lake Ozark, MO
I bought to pieces of the aluminum "L" channel that Lowes sells for a couple of bucks. The local radiator shop welded ($10.00) those across my radiator (tacked on at the side tanks). The fan just slips into the channels (adjust fan width before welding) and you drill the 4 mounting holes and bolt it up.
