looks like it would fit better (with less work involved) than the Pontiac 6000 fan that myself and Aaron Cake use.

 

I like. This is going on my to-do list.

 

LOL this is so funny cuz last week I measured the efan on my merc villager that is sitting in my driveway waiting to go to the wrecker and had the same idea

 

Heh heh, good deal Barnett.

B

 

Sorry if this is a double post. Dont know if the first reply went through. But I went to the local junkyard today and picked one up. Every villager/quest between 93-98 so far has the same fan.

As for wiring it in, i haven't done it yet. Brian I might have missed it, but did you splice it into anything specific?

 

Nah. For a regular non standalone car, just grab yourself a relay and switch it using the switched +12vdc power hanging off the green plug near the driver's side head light. Fuse the battery power to 25-30A. Use 12awg wiring and wire the power portion off the relay to the BLUE/RED lead to the fan. That's high speed.

B

 

Oh and also, were you running a stock alt or an fd upgrade?

 

On the 'vert? Stock S4 alternator. That's another reason why I raised the idle up a bit.

B

 

Awesome. My s5 alt shouldnt have a problem yesterday. I already have a lumpy *** idle because of the porting on my t2 motor

 

Yep it oughta do ok. May want to consider bumping the idle up a hair to compensate for the current draw of the fan if you run it on switched ignition +12ve constantly.

Anybody else try the fan out yet?

B

 

i may have to try this...

subscribed.

 

I'll likely be heading out to my favorite junkyard down in the ghetto this week, I'll be on the lookout for sure. Thanks for the tip .

 

What is the point of installing the efan if you're not going to exploit it's greatest advantage over stock?
Even the crude mechanical fan attempts to sync it's performance with the temperature, wiring the efan to be ignition activated ("Always ON") is a step back from that.

Why do you need/want any fan action at all before the thermostat opens?

 

can't you just get a temp switch there like 30 bucks?

 

You're right.

B

 

Im going to go ahead and assume theres a thread hidden somewhere in the deep bowels of the forums. time to do a little searching.

 

Here's one.

Yes, I'm biased.

 

to be fair the stock fan runs all the time too

I think some do it to keep things simple

 

True, but the thermoclutch at least pretends to adapt to heat levels.

Possibly, although a thermoswitch is hardly a major addition to the already present relay wiring.

 

Terrific read. Very good photo documentation. I wasn't aware of that cool relay you could get. Certainly it's ideal to have the fan on under only certain conditions as (when ducting on the car is setup well) there's no reason to run it once the vehicle is moving good and quick down the road. It's meant as more of a low vehicle speed thing.

On my Turbo II, I've got my Fiero fan wired in to the Haltech and it ground-switches it on at 193*F and then shuts it off at 188*F. So, in theory, it's not coming on really when the car is going down the highway; just at lower speeds where there's not enough air moving through the front air damn and into the heat exchangers to pull heat out of the rad.

I'm going to have to eyeball your thread a bit more. I think it deserves a sticky.

B

 

With you on that.

B

 

its not, but it can be considered another thing that could fail

 

Didn't realize you were such a Luddite, Rob.

 

im just making conversation thats all

sometimes people like to keep things simple or they decide on a Thursday afternoon they want to have something done by Friday and have not put hours of research into a project.

there is always GOOD-BETTER-BEST isnt there?

 

NISSAN Quest.