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Nice pics Nitemare!
Just had a thought, which may be a stupid one - if you did away with the original bonnet catch, could the inner front panel be cut right back so that the intercooler and radiator could be further forward?
If so, the viscous hub might be able to be retained and the bonnet catch replaced with external ones like the Oz Army used,
Cheers Charlie
possibly could be done but not sure, that rad' panel has the lights in it so i'd be limited with clearance on the back of them, a lights in wings would give more space than this one for moving the rad' forwards, to be honest i don't see the point in retaining the viscous fan as you'll have to adapt the fan shield/ducting to have it properly efficient and drawing the air through the rad', whereas two high power electric fans mounted tight to the rad' will do the same job with the bonus of being able to switch them off when wading and hopefully keep your ignition system dry
with mine as it stands i'll have to dismount the panel and get the rad' out of the way to change the drivers side sealed beam unit (i made an error :eek: ) so i intend to fit halogen bulb units in the hope it'll reduce that difficulty
Ah yes - forgot about the lights!
Mine is a S3 so that won't be a problem. I mentioned it because I will expect mine to do heavy towing etc. in fiendish temperatures, so a viscous is highly desirable but for your application the thermatic fans will be fine,
Cheers Charlie