Electric Fan Question

[gnrl01]

I am getting ready to purchase an electric Fan for my charger and want to know if anyone has an recommendations for me. Not sure if there is a particular brand or what i should get, Is this something I should get from Jegs or Summitt? I need a pusher fan that i can turn on when I need it, if I get into heavy traffic my 440 start to heat up when it is siting there. I just want to make sure I get a good quality one and big enough one...any help would be awesome.

Don
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[dkn1997]

ok, so you are looking for an auxilliary fan to help out your current engine driven fan?  sounds like it. 
I use a proform 2000 cfm model mounted on the front of my radiator.  It's wired to a relay and then a switch inside the centerconsole of my 68.

I installed mine when I was having a cooling problem and although it worked, it is a bandaid at best.  an engine driven fan should be able to cool even the most radical motors under any condition.  I finally traced my problem back the holley projection I was running.  It was either running way rich or lean at idle.  The problem appeared when I put the pojection on and disappeared when I went back to a carb.  anyway, along the way, I switched to an aluminum rad, ditched my underdrive pulleys, installed a shroud, used water wetter, bled the system many times, tried different T stats and nothing really worked.  a fixed flex fan finally got it under control and the auxilliary electric pusher helped also. 

my point is that if you are considering this to solve a cooling problem, you might want to try other things first. 

If you go ahead with it, I have read that Zirgo makes a fan that they claim moves something in the neighborhood of 4000 cfm.  at least that's what they say.....spal makes really nice fans also

[myk]

Just for the wow factor, I'd like to ditch the engine fan altogether, but I wouldn't trust my cooling system to just one electric fan.  With the mechanical, as long as the engine is running the fan is turning...

[69chargeryeehaa]

just a thought, a cheap way to get a electric fan would be the wreakers, go in to one of those wreakers that let you "browse" around and look in toyotas, hondas, ect... preferably one that was rear-ended!!!! they usually have really low profile/high cfm fans because they don't have a pulley driven fan at all, get a few for like $20 and just fab up a bracket to mount them infront of the rad, wire in a switch and fuse/relay and tada, done.... i have mine setup on a manual switch i flip if i hit traffic on a really hot day just for that extra cooling and insurance.  i also have the stock pulley driven fan, and never overheat.  just giving you a low cost alternative

[clausoe]

Here's what i mounted after my stock fan went through the radiator. Got it from the wreckers from a citroen xm or something. It's only temporary but it's worked so well it's been there for 3 years now.