will they give you any gains? I was reading the summitracing catalog and one of the fans for $200 read

"By replacing your stock engine-driven fan with one of these Flex-a-lite Black Magic electric fans, you can get back up to 17 free horsepower that the stock fan was stealing. With a powerful motor and steep blade angle, Black Magic fans can move up to 2,800 cfm of air--enough to cool 300 HP vehicles without air conditioning, and 250 HP vehicles with air. These 15 in. diameter puller-type fans have an adjustable thermostat and a fiberglass shroud that withstands heat up to 250 degrees F."

Is this true or should i stick to a $50 pep boys one?

 

just get a 12" slim fan for $90 or so. i cant speak for those $200 fans. but if you have a good radiator you shouldn't need an expensive fan. mine hardly even comes on.

edit: your stock honda fan is electrical anyways so there would be no freeing of power anyways.


Modified by Pee Wee at 8:33 PM 2/15/2006

 

17 horsepower?

How? Buy cooling down the engine to stock heat spec? Oh wait, it does that by itself with stock everything.

 

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thats only implied with vehicles that have belt driven fans

 

If you are worried about cooling put a AC fan on there and wire it to the current fan then you have plenty of cooling power. Honda fans are already electric therefore you will not free up 17hp.


&lt;---Wonders why anyone would need that much CFM flowing through the radiator.