Radiator fans

[Alex93]

To anyone that's fitted the kenlowe fans with the plastic pins that fit them to the rad, which way round do they go please? If fitted with the logo and fan facing the rear of the car, surely then when in operation, it would suck air from the rear of the car, then push it through the rad and through the grill at the front of the car? Essentially sucking air from back to front which is wrong isn't it?

Mildly confused

Alex

[UltimaCH]

Fans need to suck from the front, through the rad and out back.

[Alex93]

UltimaCH said:

Fans need to suck from the front, through the rad and out back.

Which is how I thought it'd be, however, all images online show the fans the other way around, with the 'Front' if the fan aimed towards the rear of the car. This would cause the fan to 'suck' air from front-to-back

[UltimaCH]

Hi Alex,

The fans sit on top and behind the rad. Here's a photo from my build:

[Alex93]

I seem to have different fans to you? I've got the curved blades Kenlowe's. Just unsure as the way I'd intuitively fit them, they'd suck air instead of blow it

[UltimaCH]

Where they Factory supplied or sourced elsewhere? I believe mine are Paget (can't check as I am not in my workshop), but the company has closed so perhaps the new builds use a different supplier. Have you tried contacting Richard at the Factory?

[Alex93]

They're factory supplied but maybe that's why we have different. Yeah I've emailed but away from the car at the moment (sadly)

[anonymous-user]

Doesn't anyone do a "proper" fan shroud? (So the fans aren't hung off the rad core, and actually suck air across the full width of the rad!)

[UltimaCH]

Max_Torque said:

Doesn't anyone do a "proper" fan shroud? (So the fans aren't hung off the rad core, and actually suck air across the full width of the rad!)

Lee in the USA has just made one
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...