Thread: underhood heat management

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that looks good but that is the way my cowl is from gm and i have the rad up as far as it will go to make room for the 3inch belt for the blower so no room for fan in front of engine so two spals fans up front yes i know this is not the way to fly but no room . the car will not get hot at idle but it heat soaks thanks i will let this go i did not want to hi jack this topic and my alt is be low the the rad

i do run my trans cooler in my fender well so it is not up front it is in the back of the inner fender by the bottom of the cowl the 50 dose have baffed in the back of the fenders ti may need hole in the inners but there is a lot of room for air by the cowl a lot .i hate to cut hole some were and make thing not better??

my fans run all the time i will try to take some pics it is one bad chevy if i have to say so my self a it is a hot head just like me

when i start the car i turn them on where i take the car i make shure i sit a round for 1 hour i do not drive this thing all time. this thing with the 548 blown big block in it and runs on race gas and is 10 psi on boost and and is 10to1 cr it is a land rocket so i do not hang out on the road to long with 4inch ex the cops my be comming? but i can leave the fans on as long as i want

the thing that gets me thinking on two holes down by the headers is a job i did for a customer i put my 548 14.8 into a 27 ford car it was tub out and i wound bet it was going to run hot it ran 230 in my gto but it did not in the 27and it had small tube header and small ex and no hood and a very small rad more air was getting at the headers than going thur the rad

definitely wrap the headers. Yeah, it voids the warranty, and certainly does make the rust quicker. But... that heat = POWER if ya keep it in !

If you want a nice, small 4inch diameter fan that really blows, here is a good prospect

http://www.outdoorsuperstore.com/sto...LGE+BLOWER.htm

I used one to pass more air over a small fluid cooler. Only drawback is the noise....it screams more than an excited date at the drive in.

mike in tucson