| Author | Message | ||
| Stephen E. Schroeder (Seschroeder)
Junior Member Username: Seschroeder Post Number: 66 Registered: 4-2002 |
When I started this project I foolish had it in my mind that the intake to the radiator was on the passenger side. Not true, it is on the drivers side. I should have mounted the fan controller on the drivers side rather than the passenger side. Easily fixed by extending the wire to the temperature sensor. The unit itself is fairly small. I've include a picture of the unit, could not help but put in a picture or two of the car.    | ||
| Dom Vitarella (Dom)
Member Username: Dom Post Number: 326 Registered: 11-2002 |
Steven, Sounds interesting. DO you have a photo, more details? Thanks, Dom | ||
| Stephen E. Schroeder (Seschroeder)
Junior Member Username: Seschroeder Post Number: 64 Registered: 4-2002 |
I've now had a chance to drive the car enough to get a real handle on the plus's or minus's of the fan controller on the Ferrari. Before car ran at 195 - 200 degress now 175 - 180. | ||
| Stephen E. Schroeder (Seschroeder)
Junior Member Username: Seschroeder Post Number: 63 Registered: 4-2002 |
Gentlemen: Living in Oklahoma City it gets hot during the summer month (106 yesterday). While my 82 308GTSi has yet to overheat I do worry about the problem. Being a conservative lad by nature, read coward, I find it easier, and less painful, to solve potential problems before they occur rather than to repair/fix them later plus the damage done. Hayden manufactures an adjustable (90 - 210 degrees) after market fan controller that has worked well on my Corvette. The cost was 39.99, plus tax, from O'Reilly. One problem with the unit as purcahsed is that the fuse is located on a wire (ORANGE) that goes to a fan rather than on the RED power supply wire. I simply relocated it to the RED wire and tapped directly off the battery. BLACK goes to ground while the ORANGE and BLUE wires were tapped into the factory fan wires. The factory radiator sensor can still conrol the fans this way. The YELLOW ignition wire was tapped into the YELLOW/GREEN wire on the factory fan control sensor at the radiator. This way the fan only run with the ignition ON. I hot wired this to the battery on my Corvette and have seen the fans run for up to 1 hour with the ignition OFF. Perhaps that say something about the quality of GM electric fans. The GREEN wire was tapped into the A/C just forward of the windshiels of the passenger side of the car. I'm not sure this is required as my fans come on any time the A/C is selected. Rather than insert the temperatue sensor into the radiator fans I used two hose clamps and mounted it to the radiator pipe on the drivers side. This also worked on the Corvette. I adjusted the fans to come on right after the AMBER warm light goes out - approximately 140 degrees if memory serves. In the winter I'll reset the adjustment to 210 degrees, takes about 30 seconds, and let the normal radiator sensor control the fans when I'm not conerned with overheating. This is the reason I simply tapped into the YELLOW/GREEN wire at the radiator temperature sensor. |