my car usually over heats on hot days and am tired of driving with the heater on, I was going to upgrade to a spal fan but theres not enough room for a bigger fan. Am running a aftermarket half size radiator with a thin no name fan. any recommendations of radiator fan setups you guys use on you're turbo setups....thanks for the help

 

What radiator are you running? Driving around the motor shouldn't get got and the fan shouldn't have to constantly run. Sounds like you need a spal or Zirgo fan and air ducting and blocking off other areas. Do you have anything heat wrapped ? What chassis and what's the turbo setup.

 

chinese fans just dont pull the cfm's no way around it. An SPAL will literally flow twice the air

 

Definitely get the spal 13"


Best $120 I've ever spent

 

Its an integra dc, heres pics of the setup. No heat wrap yet

I was doing my research and the highest flowing spal fans are thicker and wont fit. Any pics of your setup? And model # of the fan used? thanks

 

U could possibly go with a pusher fan on the front of the rad.

 

The problem is the radiator doesnt have enough surface area. you don't need a thicker core you need a wider core.

a decent fan might help but it's just a bandaid

 

Want boost plenty people run the half cores without issues. I ran half ore in my car for long time without a problem. Main concern of mine is you've got a **** load of heat soak there on that setup. The wastegate and downpipe are creating a shitload of heat Iover there. Get that stuff wrapped for starters. Fan is to small get a spal or Zirgo 13" fan which will take up most of the radiator surface this will help with low speed and when not moving keep the engine cool and when coming from a boost run.

Second concern is you don't have the right side blocked off so most of the natural airflow is going around the radiator. Air will ALWAYS take the oath of least resistance. Get that blocked off as much as possible and the air will have no choice but to go through the radiator and will drastically reduce the heat soak effect and help keep the engine cooler

 

yea to a point though, like you said in cramped setups it's just a bigger area to heat soak which takes longer to cool off. personally, i would go with a larger surface area before I went thicker. it's simply more efficient at heat transfer

 

I agree but in this instance I do t think he needs to change the radiator at all just needs to set it all up properly

 

Yea he doesn't. but if he does decide to change radiators he doesn't need a thicker core.

with a 3 core half rad by the time the air makes it through the 2nd core it's the same temp as the coolant basically, making that 3rd core pointless unless you're trying to increase system capacity.

 

3 core is for capacity mainly IMO.

 

Sorry for the dumb question blocked off with what?

 

That's what am leaning towards a spal 11"or 12" pusher a 13" will not fit. A spal puller won't clear the down pipe..

 

Piece of sheet metal or aluminum or plastic panel. Something anything to force the air to the radiator instead of around it. Use you imagination you can cut some and get the radiator forward more to allow the 13" fan. I have a DC and had a simple setup at one time and I fit a larger fan. Just gotta make it happen. Or put a scirocco radiator in it

 

Cool Thanks... any picture's of that setup?

 

Air likes to take the path of least resistance. so if you have a large open space next to the radiator the air will go around the radiator rather than through it.

you can take a sheet of almost any material and size it to occupy the gap next to the radiator. it will need to reach from the lower core support to the upper and from the edge of the radiator (overlapping the very edge of the core would be best) to the edge of the opening at the frame rail

 

That's all I have for pictures but you get the idea.

 

how much did you have to trim off of the body to run the scirocco rad and a dual backdoor?

I'm debating between the scirocco rad, speedfactory's aluminum radiator, or an fcsrace radiator (I don't think it's big enough for a non drag car) along with a dual backdoor vertical core intercooler.

 

Just enough to clear the inlet and outlet of the intercooler. Plenty of room on the sides of the radiator and don't spend all that money on that fancy ****. 150 bucks and this radiator works. I think it was even less than that. You'll need a surge tank on the head coolant outlet for beat results. I tried the inline fill neck and it worked but not the best.

 

thanks for the pics. bump for pics of any other daily driver radiator fan set ups

 

Yea I'll be running a surge tank/constant bleed setup anyways. best way to do it IMO

a quality radiator, good fan, 180* thermostat, proper coolant. and a healthy water pump is all you need.

 

Funny thing. Honda actually made a condenser cover for the EG chassis. At least it is the only one i have seen. 74149-SR3-000 It is a block off plate for non AC cars.

 

That'll work too.

 

There's not much overall difference in the core support area between eg, ek, and Integras. wonder if it would work.

wonder how much it costs lol