Attacking my cooling problem

[LiquidX]

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I've been dealing with some extremely hot coolant issues. Some days just cruising normally, I'd reach just about 230* and that's with a colder thermostat. My issues are:
1. Running a SINGLE slim fan which was only rated at 900 CFM
2. No DUCTING
3. Large FMIC

The stock fans are rated between 1300-1600 CFM each so I'm trying to get something close to or better. I went and bought 2 SPAL fans.

Due to only having a 1.5" gap between my wastegate and radiator, it restricted me from using a puller fan on the driver side.
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I decided to mount a pusher fan in between the FMIC and the AC condenser since I wish to retain keeping cool during the summer.

Fan A: SPAL 12" puller rated at 1630 CFM 30102038
Fan B: SPAL 12" pusher rated at 1230 CFM 30101505
Total CFM 2860 CFM

Everything went smoothly and the pictures will tell a better story. Unfortunately, the 12 pusher was too large in diameter to fit. Turns out I need a 9" which will cut the CFM in half as I only have 2.5" to play with. There is a high flow 9" but is 3.7" wide

Well here are pictures of my whole setup. So far it seems to run a little cooler. I don't have my Link cable so I cannot verify temps. The duct work makes the needle take longer to get to the middle of the temp gauge so it should be good. All-in-all I'm very happy with the end results for both looks and effectiveness.

Managed to find everything I needed at Ace Hardware.

Chopped the stock duct system up and managed to fit it all in there. Here is the stock duct.
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Cut and taped. The red portions were removed. I was basically left with 2 separate pieces, an upper and lower half.
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Took aluminum bar plate, cut to length and drilled a hole for the fan side. Marked the next hole, drilled and mounted.
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Foam'd the space between the condenser core and radiator. I chose to split it like that so the puller fan pulls from one side only and not pull from the pusher fan on the other.
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Here is the 12" puller fan rated at 1630 CFM
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I'll get pictures up when I get the baby-small pusher fan installed.

 

[gho5tone]

Would that foam be able to withstand the heat from the radiator? Anyways good work! I plan to do something similar.

 

[LiquidX]

It's copper pipe insulation foam made for hot water pipes. I've read of others using this stuff as well just fine.

 

[tcouty87]

Does it only overheat at low speeds and idle?

 

[LiquidX]

Nope, all speeds it was heating up. Figure that I had the CFM rating of a little more than half of the stock fan, I wasn't doing much cooling. The single fan was running constantly.

Some days were better than others. I haven't recorded over 230* however but 220* is too much for my taste.

 

[PieEyedPiper]

Hurry and get some temp readings!

 

[Blurred Talon]

I'm gonna have to get some of that foam since my rad is out of the car right now.

Remember, air takes the path of less resistance so if there is even a tiny gap it will go through that instead of your FMIC, Condenser and Radiator.

Look forward to seeing your results.

 

[LiquidX]

Well I got my Link cable back and dud some driving around. Ambient temps are around 84*. My driving temps have not gone above 210* which included idling. On average I'm in the range of 195*-203*. I've hit as low as 180* as well.

Having a smaller front opening makes it harder to cool compared to the Eclipse style bumper.

I'll be installing the 9" fan tomorrow and will see if I can improve on the ducting. Updates to follow.

 

[BIGBLAZE79]

Nice dude, I have also been battling running hot with my Talon. I just installed a 9"SPAL puller, between the stock ac fan and the Tial external waist gate. Still runs a little hot with the ac on. I'm gonna pull the bumper and see if it runs normal with the ac on on the freeway. If that hepls I'm gonna cut holes in the bumper on both sides of the eagle emblem.

 

[turboed_GS]

So you are getting those low temps with just the single 1630cfm fan?

 

[LiquidX]

Read part 2 of this journal. It has more detail. The temps are from the duct work. I've gotten even lower temps on the revision.

 

[DashLaflash]

Do you have a link to the large slimfan? How thick is it like 3 inches?