I'm about to buy a fluidyne radiator because my stock one has a slight crack on the plastic and its leaking. But from what i've heard from some people it is almost 2X thicker then the stock one.

 

That is correct..

The stock fans will not fit if you have a revhard/drag kit. For me,
The clearance between the radiator and the turbo is about 2.25".. so there's
not many options.. I don't think the Fal Slimline fans will fit.

 

I have only slimline fan. The fan that sits in front of the turbo, I took that off because of clearance issue. I have probaby like 2 inch clearance

 

i have the fluidyne radiator for a civic and there aren't any clearance issues with my turbo. but, that is probably because the compressor is facing the driver's side of the vehicle. even with that the downpipe clears the factory fan just fine.

 

i ran my slim fit fans in front of the radiator where the old a/c condensor was.

 

correct me if I am wrong, but I think Dustin somehow manage to install the fan on the other side of the radiator, with the wire splice backward so the fan spins backward than the original one....

but I don;t see how fal slimline won;t work though, they're very slim...

 

you beat me to it..

 

I had to do the same...

Maxrev manifold + T3/T04E + Fluidyne = (see pic)

 

You definitely have to move the condenser fan to use the Fluidyne - get a single slimline fan and put it in front of the condenser, you'll be fine. The fluidyne works so damn good the fans hardly come on anyway.

 

if you use a single fan, do you wire it to your regular fan leads or the A/C ones? If your ac comes on, do both fans operate continuously or just the a/c fan?

 

My experiences with my fluidyne/FAL and a drag3 set-up on an LS.

I used one fan, and mounted it on the passenger side of the car, fit fine where the old ac fan was. Never wired the FAL to run on both the ac and primary cooling fan. Never needed to.

Driving around town my temp gauge would be lower than stock. Sitting in traffic my fan would come on. Driving around with the AC would turn the fan on. This was all at 6psi.

I figured that this happened because of the extra cooling capacity afforded by the fluidyne, the fact that its a better heat exchanger than the stock radiator, and the fact that once you get moving, since there is only one fan on the rad that it gets sufficient air flow for moderate boost levels.

If I hadn't noticed that the fluidyne lowered temps just by driving around I would wired both fans to the single FAL, but I never saw the need to.

There were no clearance issues with this combo, and the FAL fan is quieter than the stock fan.

Tom


[Modified by Tomakit, 10:48 PM 6/19/2002]

 

Hehe...this post is 40 days old. I got the Fluidyne like a month ago.