Electric Cooling Fans On V8

[discman]

Anyone running electric thermofans on there V8 Disco/Rangie?

Are they any good or is the standard viscous unit still king?

Any responses would be interesting style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

[HSVRangie]

I run set of EL ford thermos on my RR.

No probs to date.

Michael

[one_iota]

Cousin John's 6.5 V8 diesel transplant will be running with thermos and without a viscous or belt driven fan and based on some very good advice. A larger radiator will be installed. A spare thermo wil be carried just in case.

[shaunp]

Falcon fans and shroud works well on Jags I reckon they'd be sweet on a disco as well.

[hawk11]

I use EL Falcon thermo fans but they do suck the amps (26A!!). You should really get a larger alternator, especially if you still use the factory air con (which pulls 30A on full blast with the condensor fans running). Added to the 8-10A required to run the car and 4-8A to charge the battery you easily exceed the standard 60A alternator!

Just need to think through all the issues!

[walker]

I let a mate convert his Rangie to electric first just to see how it went. His running a 4.4l and it runs cooler with the twin thermos than it did with the viscous.
Based on this I just bought myself some fans to install next week. Anything from the EF through to the AU is the fan you want. You can pick them up cheap ($70-90) second hand but I bought a brand new one on Ebay for $140 which I thought was OK.

[discman]

Mmmmm' these Falcon fans sound like the go!


The reason i started this thread is that i'll shortly be fitting a 95 high comp 3.9 in the Disco to replace the origional low comp motor and have found that the new (2 month old) viscous coupling that i'd bought for the old motor has a different thread size to the 95's water pump so was thinking of changing over to thermo fans instead.

New motor came with 100 amp alternater so extra current shouldnt be a problem.

Was also planning running some more ancillarys off the front of the motor in the future so this would give the extra clearance for that also.

How does the size of the plastic EL fan shroad compare to the standard Rangie rad?

What type of thermoswitch are you all using?