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Donnie Barnes · 12-15-07, 05:39 PM

Big diesel trucks have electric fans, so the CFM *can* be done. It's a matter of packaging it, I think. I'm not sure you can get one small enough to fit in there and then handle the rigors of where it now lives...sure, it's purpose is to move air to cool, but it still might get heat sucked having to basically butt up against the top of the engine. Maybe if you got the electric motor away from the engine some and drove the fan with a belt...but then the whole look thing is all but shot again.

--Donnie

12-15-07, 05:39 PM	#65 (permalink)
Donnie Barnes djb_rh Rookie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Posts: 29 Rep Power: 2	Re: Getting started on a 917K Big diesel trucks have electric fans, so the CFM can be done. It's a matter of packaging it, I think. I'm not sure you can get one small enough to fit in there and then handle the rigors of where it now lives...sure, it's purpose is to move air to cool, but it still might get heat sucked having to basically butt up against the top of the engine. Maybe if you got the electric motor away from the engine some and drove the fan with a belt...but then the whole look thing is all but shot again. --Donnie