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Re: Sprite Radiator Fan Direction

To: Healey list <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Sprite Radiator Fan Direction
From: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:50:00 -0400
Quinn, Patrick wrote:

>By the way the fan in the BMC Mini is designed to blow air through the
>radiator and if it's reversed it draws air through causing overheating.
>It's probably peculiar to the Mini and derivatives.
>  
>
There may have been, as they say, a misunderstanding.  It doesn't matter
whether it's a Mini, a Healey of any stripe, or a Rolls Royce --
reversing the fan blades will not change the direction of air flow. 
(Reversing the polarity of a fan motor will, however). 

A Sprite, having a longitudinal engine with a belt-driven fan and the
radiator in front, is going to pull the air backward through the radiator. 

-- 
John Miller
"Hey, I'm just sayin..." 
        -St. John Smythe




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