Conversion fit issues???

[TNroadrider]

Dan Filipi is the member who placed a 10 inch fan on the outside of his radiator, I believe a GL1100. I looked into this while doing my conversion. Since my radiator had to be moved forward to clear the larger pulley I went ahead and used the interior fan setup.

On thing you must consider is that you can block a good amount of incoming air with the wrong type of fan when mounted in front, the less blades with higher CFM the better, this provides more opening between the blades for incoming air. Also consider the overall thickness of the fan because you don't want the front fender making contact with the fan during hard breaking, the front end will dive considerably and could cause you to loose control if it contacts a fan.

It's really going to come down to personal desire, if you want the fan mounted in front for everyone to see or have it hidden. Many of the new cars are coming out with front mounted fans due to space limitations behind the radiator, they seem to be doing fine. If you could get one in chrome that might change things quite abit. I've got close to 800 miles on my conversion in both highway and stop & go traffic, so far the Perma Cool 8" 800 cfm fan is working well, the temp has not gone over 1/2 way on the gauge and it drops down rather quickly once I get rolling.

TN