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Ok so I know what the fan does. Can I run it while driving to help cool engine?
snifter - December 16th, 2004 at 04:51 PM

what I have asked above. Will it help, or am I just moving air from the exhaust? Ta. Oh while I am at it. How much of a difference will air scoops make to the cooling?

Ta

Philip

vw54 - December 16th, 2004 at 05:00 PM

What car do u have ??? Kombi ???

snifter - December 16th, 2004 at 05:25 PM

Sorry it is a 75 Kombi......

Ta

Philip

Robo - December 16th, 2004 at 07:56 PM

Wont make any difference! It just draws the hot air from the heat exchangers. I have scoops and the effect is debatable, I havent noticed any great change in the temp. save yaself $100, and don't bother.
Rob...:cool:

[Edited on 16-12-2004 by Robo]

pete wood - December 18th, 2004 at 07:41 AM

Someone told me that the scoops dropped the oil temperature 5deg on a 30deg day. Doesn't sound like much, but seems worth it to me, 5deg is the difference between cooking it and not cooking it.

What about an external oil cooler? they're expensive but that's the direction porsche went as the air cooled engines got more hypo.

BTW, you can buy non-genuine fibreglass scoops for $25 a pair, I got some at the nationals for my brother last year.