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Old 04-11-08, 06:15 PM
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Electric Fan for Koyo Rad. S4

So from what I have heard, the early 90's fan from the Ford Taurus is the best fit for the Koyo Aluminum Radiator. What years specifically and what other things are there to know?
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I have that exact setup. 92-95 Taurus SHO 3.8L. The junkyard charged me $50. The fan controls the temperature well on the low setting. I never have to use the high one.
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make sure you wire it properly
heres the HOW TO by aaron cake http://www.aaroncake.net/RX-7/efaninstall.htm
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This zirgo fan is killer!
3000 cfm and only 10 amps.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

I'm very impressed with it on my car.
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i have a lincoln town car 3800cfm wooot wooot and crazy amounts of amps can you say two realys for the win bissshhhh

its so freacking awsome i can put a bag 5 feet away from the fmic and it gets sucked right to the fins
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Personally I think the Taurus fan is a poor fit compared to the GM fan mentioned in my writeup.
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Wow, so I'm at the point of wiring it up... and... I'm hella lost. That write up you just provided isn't clicking... and I dunno. I just wanted to wire it to the car how the manual one was (or wasn't?). I thought I could just wire it to something that was already there... crap. HELP!
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You need some type of thermo switch. Wire it through a relay switched by the thermo switch. If you have a standalone, many will have outputs that you can set to signal the relay based on coolant temp.

Here is a working link to Aaron's write-up:

http://aaroncake.net/RX-7/efaninstall.htm

He gives examples of where to find the switch you need too.

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Originally Posted by marshall13B
Wow, so I'm at the point of wiring it up... and... I'm hella lost. That write up you just provided isn't clicking... and I dunno. I just wanted to wire it to the car how the manual one was (or wasn't?). I thought I could just wire it to something that was already there... crap. HELP!
Are you saying that you don't understand, or the site isn't working? I just checked the site (the server is currently 6 feet from me) and it's working.

Manual fan? The RX-7 does not have a manual fan. You really can't easily wire it to something that is already there because nothing exists. The stock aux thermo fan turns on at very high temperatures.
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lol no the site was fine, it wasn't making sence to me because I read it to fast. But I wired it up to the ignition for now. But I do wanna fix it and do it right.
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Originally Posted by Aaron Cake
Personally I think the Taurus fan is a poor fit compared to the GM fan mentioned in my writeup.
What is the link to your writeup?
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DON'T wire the fan to ignition.

My writeup lists the GM fans I use. It's already been linked (twice) in this thread.




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