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Anyone thrown away the cooling fan on a BE in favor of a puller electric fan? I made the conversion on my TR6 using the fan eleminator part form RP. I am not aware of anyone that makes a similar part for a spridget. Any reason I cant take the offending original piece to a machine shop and have them make a blank to bolt on in its place?

Also, any real reason to convert to a cross flow radiator while upgrading to a 1275 and 5 speed?
 
You'll need a different water inlet from a 948 to a 1275. Radiators on Cross flow and downflow have their hoses on different sides. An easy change.
 
I put a pusher fan (mounted in the hood tunnel) on my Bugeye once, didn't work so well, engine heated up pretty well. I found that if I just put one of the two metal fans on with the pusher that it worked really well, electric only came on during really slow traffic (in Southern California).
As for the radiators- I have never found either type to work badly so long as they are clean inside! Why bother to change?
BillM
 
Like how the aluminum radiator with puller fan workes on my TR6. While I am in the rebuild stage with the BE, and replacing the radiator, need to decide whether to use old downflow or newer crossflow. Don't know if there is any particular reason to use either.

As for eleminating the fan, seems like the puller electric is more effecient than the engine driven.
 
I took off the motor fan completely, put on a 1" electric as a puller and it rarely comes on. Only when good and warm and sitting at a light for a while. Mine is rigged with a temp sensor and a toggle under the dash as well as a light that comes on to tell me it's on. More HP, less noise, more room to work on stuff....it's all good. If your moving at a speed above 20mph you don't need any fan.
 
A decent electric fan should move at least as much air as that pathetic thing attached to the engine. I'm amazed that the engine fan moves enough air to cool the radiator, although it obviously does.

I have an electric fan as well as the engine fan. The electric one was added by the PO, who lived in the desert near Sacramento. I suspect he needed it, but down here near the coast, it's really too much cooling. I added an electronic thermostat, so it only comes on when really needed. It rarely comes on.

By the way, unless you want to spend twice as much as necessary, don't get one of these from Moss or VB or any other automotive supplier, for that matter. Get it from any electronics place; try Digi-Key or Allied, or, for that matter, just look on eBay. Any large 12-volt fan should be fine.
 
I didn't pay close enough attention to how the fan is attached. Looks like you can leave off the fan without needing a blanking plate or any other hardware.

Where did you attach your temperature sensor for the electric fan?
 
I put the sensor into the upper rad hose. My other post should have read 10" fan not 1". Yes, on the metal fan, two piece, you take the 4 bolts out that hold the pulley and fan on, take the blades out, put the pulley back on AND the bolts. (I forgot to put the bolts back in, ask me how that worked out sometime).
And the whole point is to ditch the motor fan, IMHO.
 
Miss Agatha has never had a problem. Temp has nevcr gone over 180 degrees even when out side it is 100.

Hard to get her to 180 in the winter without a cardboard blanking plate on the radiator.
 
Here's how mine is mounted. Two metal straps. The fan is bolted to the top one, but held on by zip ties on the bottom, since the mounting holes don't line up. I've been meaning to fix that, but haven't gotten to it yet.

The straps don't have to go all the way across, of course. As it stands, they block the radiator a bit, which is less than perfect. There are lots of obvious alternatives.

It's a 10" diameter fan. The controller is described at https://www.nonlintec.com/sprite/controller/ and you can see how the sensor is mounted.
 

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I think if you can do it as a puller (engine side of radiator) it is more efficient. I used the generic electric fan attachers (plastic bolts) stuck right through the radiator. Works great.
 
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