I noticed my FAL is pulling air from inside the engine compartment through my radiator and pushing through my FMIC. Isnt this backwards? seems it is going to heat the air inside my intercooler. sonovabitch. anybody? help?

 

if its doing that, reverse the wires and the fan should turn/blow the other direction

 

ps any pics of the fmic?? or font shots with rad?

 

yeah, here's one

 

Make it so the fan blows not sucks, switch the wires around

 

so cut the wires, where the plug is and solder them back reversed?

 

bump

 

yes. reverse the wires.

or flip the fan around

 

if the fan blows through wont it push hot air into the engine bay?

 

Yes and that's what it's supposed to do. Otherwise it will push the oncoming air when you are moving back out from the radiator area (in an exaggerated form) and not promote cooling.

And yes, that fan is mounted on the opposite side of where it is to be mounted on a radiator, so you just need to put power on the opposite of where you are currently putting it (aka switch the wires around).

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Joebroni &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yes and that's what it's supposed to do. Otherwise it will push the oncoming air when you are moving back out from the radiator area (in an exaggerated form) and not promote cooling.

And yes, that fan is mounted on the opposite side of where it is to be mounted on a radiator, so you just need to put power on the opposite of where you are currently putting it (aka switch the wires around).</TD></TR></TABLE>
cool thanks, yeah I have no choice but to run it this way. Turbo would be Hella in the way to try and run it on the other side.

 

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looks good and good idea on mounting the fan since your turbo is in the way. but yes, your only solution is to switch the wires around. with you keeping the wires as it came out the box, the fan was spinning the way it was supposed to IF u kept it in the engine bay, but since you switched it around you were supposed to swap the wires also

 

If it uses a plug, you could see about de-pinning the plug and switching them to keep a cleaner install. Just a thought...

 

2 things. you can just pull the pins out of the plug with a small screwdriver, and switch them that way, rather than cutting them.

and the fins on the fan are designed for turning it one way, they won't move as much air the other way. just keep that in mind when you let it idle on those hot days.

 

nice setup... any pics w/bumper on?

some fans are designed to both pushers and pullers.

 

you must have a monster front bumper. I had to hack the **** out of mine just to fit a jrc 6 inch into my 90 hatch.

 

Did anyone else notice the COMPLETE lack of a bumper support? Damn dude with all that intercooler, who needs a bumper lol.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by notfastenough &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Did anyone else notice the COMPLETE lack of a bumper support? Damn dude with all that intercooler, who needs a bumper lol.</TD></TR></TABLE>
bumper still retains all original bolts. Just has a big hole in the front

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by speeddave &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice setup... any pics w/bumper on?

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LoL, not much of a sleeper.

 

makes me miss mine alot~!

 

yeah, i know, any ideas on how to cover it up. who makes an aftermarket frnt bumper that will cover it?

 

Prolly a WW one. Heck paint it black with the proper paint. Or keep the buck tooth look, some VW's have that on them. It's fun to look at.

 

since you have no bumper support, why not raise the intercooler up so that it doesnt hang below the bottom of the bumper. that way you could leave the bottom portion of the bumper intact. it would look and fit fine then imo.

 

What radiator is that?