by phil4 » Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:43 am
As I was driving to the factory on Saturday, a little damp and chilly... I thought about what tends to occur during the summer.
When the engine temp gets about 95 or so, the fan comes on wafting warm air towards your feet.
Clearly on Saturday it was never going to get that high, no warm air wafting. And this led to my thinking:
- for such events wouldn't it be nice to have a fan override, that turned it on when wanted. Granted it would probably only be able to run for a short while, either time or down to a lower temp limit.... but better than nothing.
- what would the effect be on the coolant being say 10 degrees cooler? is this a no-no?
If viable I figured this could be added with little or no extra equipment/weight.
Now shoot me down
As I was driving to the factory on Saturday, a little damp and chilly... I thought about what tends to occur during the summer.
When the engine temp gets about 95 or so, the fan comes on wafting warm air towards your feet.
Clearly on Saturday it was never going to get that high, no warm air wafting. And this led to my thinking:
- for such events wouldn't it be nice to have a fan override, that turned it on when wanted. Granted it would probably only be able to run for a short while, either time or down to a lower temp limit.... but better than nothing.
- what would the effect be on the coolant being say 10 degrees cooler? is this a no-no?
If viable I figured this could be added with little or no extra equipment/weight.
Now shoot me down :)