Is your grill block robbing you?

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Most cooling fans when they run, run for a short time without AC engagement. Even 400 watts is not bad as long as its less than a few minutes in an hour. When you use a component like a cooling fan, just imagine how much it runs in bumper to bumper traffic 110 F ambient and you are running the AC on max for every second of an hour, with fans running constantly.

Your car won't melt, unless it has other potentially catastrophic failures there already.

If you hear the fan running too much, and your block is like mine, then pull out one of the three pieces and put it around the spare tire.

regards
Mech

[darcane]

I have the Coolant Temp alarm on my Ultragauge go off just before the fans kick in. Once the alarm starts sounding on a regular basis on my commute, I pull off the lower grill block for the summer. It goes back on in the winter.

No overuse of fans here.

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Here is the radiator that is going in my 3 wheeler project. I'm trying to decide whether to use the radiator for heating the cabin or drawing heat off the catalytic converter. Smaller than a lot of heater cores, single row of cooling tubes. It's off a CBR 250r.

regards
Mech

[redpoint5]

Just got back from an 1,800 mile road trip along the Northern CA coast in a 1998 Toyota Camry. With a full upper grill block, and half of the lower blocked, the radiator fan came on only once while climbing a hill in stop and go traffic (I-680, perhaps).

I set my UG to alarm at anything above 210 F, and the fan kicks on at 215 F. I can tell when the fan kicks on because the temps will rapidly fall from 215 down to about 190 degrees.

White coroplast upper block and pipe insulation for half of the lower block

[deejaaa]

Originally Posted by justme1969

I think its amazing that yall would recomend over inflating tires 40% and all agree on that dangerous idea yet whittle away against a simple concept.

the statement right there made me turn off my normally open mind. communication is key to get your ideas across.

Originally Posted by justme1969

........The good news is that lots of people were educated ..........

an assumption. i wasn't. like i said, i quit reading.

Originally Posted by justme1969

Im sure this would only apply to a handfull of 3/4 ton and such type vehicles butt my 400 watt example may not be so easily dismissed just because my car doesnt use that energy amount as I said b4 this is for you to figure out I cannot do the homework for everyone on the forum..........

Froidian slip?
I have an ultragauge to keep an eye on temps. maybe that should be suggested next time?

[Cobb]

Alot of off road guys use those for the engine oil, tranny, power steering, etc to help keep em cool without the fan. They just mount them up out of the way for passive radiant cooling. This way its less likely to get damaged or covered in mud.

Originally Posted by Old Mechanic

Here is the radiator that is going in my 3 wheeler project. I'm trying to decide whether to use the radiator for heating the cabin or drawing heat off the catalytic converter. Smaller than a lot of heater cores, single row of cooling tubes. It's off a CBR 250r.

regards
Mech