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I Read Electric Fan Installation By Jason E. Fountain in the tech area and would like to offer a cheaper electric fan solution. All you need is:
1. A fan from a 1999 or 2000 Chevy Cavalier ($20 at locale junk yard) mounts right to radiator only need drill 2 holes through the plastic surface one in each of the upper corners to allow for mounting. The tabs on bottom of fan slide into original fan shroud brackets. The nice part with this is fan comes complete with its own shroud to allow more air to be directed through the radiator.
2. A universal install kit used for trans coolers and most aftermarket electric fans the little plastic ties ($6 at local auto store)
3. Optional but not required could use a cheap switch on dash or a electric fan universal temp sensor kit ($30 (if I remember right) from local auto store) follow instructions in kit for installing.
As for the AC Wire a good 12v tester will help you find out which wire is which, but if you have 2.3L I wouldn't recommend doing this because the 2.3L uses a WOT sensor in AC to disengage clutch so your electric fan will be kicked in and out every stop and every take off from a light putting a lot of undue wear on fan motor.
For those who would also like to know what to do once you pull the factory fan from engine in order to spin the pulley still you can normally just take the original bolts and use them to mount the pulley back to shaft in some cases you may have to shorten bolts a bit. for those that might not know if you need to change fan direction from pull to push just reverse wire at motor and vice versa which ever direction you need for the application you use.
The best part is if motor goes out new motor from local auto store only runs $35.
So for $56 and a little bit of time you could free up horsepower and torque. This is a total savings of $135.95 over Jason's article.
1. A fan from a 1999 or 2000 Chevy Cavalier ($20 at locale junk yard) mounts right to radiator only need drill 2 holes through the plastic surface one in each of the upper corners to allow for mounting. The tabs on bottom of fan slide into original fan shroud brackets. The nice part with this is fan comes complete with its own shroud to allow more air to be directed through the radiator.
2. A universal install kit used for trans coolers and most aftermarket electric fans the little plastic ties ($6 at local auto store)
3. Optional but not required could use a cheap switch on dash or a electric fan universal temp sensor kit ($30 (if I remember right) from local auto store) follow instructions in kit for installing.
As for the AC Wire a good 12v tester will help you find out which wire is which, but if you have 2.3L I wouldn't recommend doing this because the 2.3L uses a WOT sensor in AC to disengage clutch so your electric fan will be kicked in and out every stop and every take off from a light putting a lot of undue wear on fan motor.
For those who would also like to know what to do once you pull the factory fan from engine in order to spin the pulley still you can normally just take the original bolts and use them to mount the pulley back to shaft in some cases you may have to shorten bolts a bit. for those that might not know if you need to change fan direction from pull to push just reverse wire at motor and vice versa which ever direction you need for the application you use.
The best part is if motor goes out new motor from local auto store only runs $35.
So for $56 and a little bit of time you could free up horsepower and torque. This is a total savings of $135.95 over Jason's article.
