Guys, as a typical Dutchman I went for the cheapest solution. Went to a
Volvo scrapyeard and bought a nice yellow plastic 5-blade fan for a few
bucks. Had to drill suitable holes, but that's easy in plastic. Better hurry
now that Volvo seems to be sold to the Chinese!
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432
(And Tom: 'Tot ziens' is correct Dutch)
2009/9/30 Tom Felts <tomfelts@windstream.net>
> And where do you run it? The six blade stopped the worry of "overheating"
> in any climate I have driven in---to include all across Europe up and down
> Alps and hot southern France. And---there were no other issues with the
> car-----the head and engine were completely rebuilt to high standards. ANY
> stock Healey I have ever been around had a problem running hotter that
> "normal" when in stop and go hot and humid climates-----until more air was
> passed over the engine.
>
> Another case in point is the S1 E-Type. It was designed with a POS single
> bladed fan that you could hardly feel--AND---when driven in very hot stop
> and go driving WOULD overheat. A simple fix (six-bladed fan) fixed the
> issue, which was a design flaw.
>
> Cheers
> Tom
>
>
>
> ---- Derek Job <derek.c.job@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> You are all treating symptons - you need to address the causes. I ran a
> stock but fully restored 100-Six, for 10 years and never experienced any
> overheating. Overheating is merely the visble sympton of some other
> inherent problem. A fan will help, but its not addressing the real issue,
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