Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Electric Fans

My stock fan shroud was hacked to pieces, and I really liked having a Ford Taurus fan setup on my Jeep, so I started looking at electric cooling fan options. I found a pair on ebay that seemed to be quality units and moved 2500CFM each.

I visited Midwest Steel Works to buy some steel sheet for the new fan shroud. I bought the proper size and proceeded to trace out two holes for the fans. I used a jigsaw for cutting so the holes weren't that clean. After some clean up with a die grinder though, everything looked decent.


The fans are each wired through their own relay directly into the battery. The relays are controlled with a simple, temperature based fan controller as well as input from the A/C compressor. Even on 95* days with the A/C running, the fans keep the engine nice and cool at 180*