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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 03:01 AM
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fiberglass fan shroud

I made this this weekend. Previously i had my fan sitting on my radiator. I got lazy and half assed the sanding but it will get the job done. A bit of bondo and more sanding would have made it look nice and smooth. I guess ill do that the next time the engine is out. It took 2 or 3 hours of me actually working on it (not including drying time for the resin and paint). If i would do this again (which i might b.c this one is a bit ugly) i would use 2 layers of fleece and no fiberglass mat. It would be plenty strong for this. That and i would cut the bottom flat when it was on my mold.


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the white crap on the inside is just dust. I was a bit lazy when i was cleaning it off
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 05:28 AM
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not bad, i would have made it more of a deep cone design so the airflow through the rad didn't make so much of a dead end on the backside, but yeah, not bad. Props for fabricating your own stuff!
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 06:50 AM
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they claim the shroud should be concave, not flat- is that concave?
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 07:56 AM
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cool. Those pics look like they came from 1988.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 04:21 PM
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I did not have enough clearance between my radiator and engine to make a really deep cone.

The shroud is not flat.

My camera is dieing. Note to self... taking a camera sport fishing and not having it in one of the lockers and getting caught out in a storm is a not good for the camera.
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