getting hot

[David Kirkham]

Jeff,

If you shroud the cooling fans and not the radiator, you will effectively force air around the radiator--which is not good. The increased resistance to air flow (by the shroud around the fans) will allow to follow the path of least resistance, or around the radiator.

We do not use shrouded fans, as I mentioned above, because the actually block air flow at high speeds (like on a race track). Many, many of our customers take their cars both on the street and the track. Tracking our cars is becoming more and more common. It is just too much fun.

We do not run thermostats on our oil coolers for the big block cars. On small blocks, we simply block off the oil cooler until we are fortunate enough to get some rubber on the track.

David

[David Kirkham]

Oops,

We do not run oil cooler thermostats as a standard configuration on any of our cars.

David

[David Kirkham]

That said, there is nothing preventing a customer from doing what ever they want! We are happy to help in any way we can.

David

[Mysticle31]

Hello dragon 462:

I have a 1966 Galaxie with a 428 motor. I had the engine rebuilt and modified slightly with a Edlebrock RPM manifold and a Holly 650 double pumper and guess what, it also got hot. I put in a 5 blade fan, fan shroud and even got a new 4core radiator but guess what. It also got hot especially standing at stop lights. So I took the next step; a bigger radiator. I took the 18 X 19 radiator out and put in a Be Cool 33 X 18 radiator with a 180 degree thermostat and guess what all my cooling problems went away. Now even setting a a red light in 100 degree weather the temp. gage goes to 195 degree the fans turn on and then the temp. goes back down to 180 degrees when the fans shut off. This was my cure! I hope this helps.