Installing Electric Fan

[Indiana]

I have the vette rad and a trans cooler. The trans cooler mounts to the rad with some plastic fastners that are kinda like zip ties. The electric fan mounts on the same way. What do you use to make the hole in the rad fins without damaging the coils? Where should I mount the trans cooler? I know it needs to go on the outside, but do I mount it high, low, or what? I don\'t recall, but the fan is a 16 or 18 inch fan.

[wild85]

You just stick those small ties through the core as nice as possible. Good luck!

[redneckgames]

I built brackets for my cooler and fans. I didn\'t like the idea of running the strips through the radiator. It has got to cause some strain on the rad don\'t it?

[007Driver]

Unless you have some cheap wal-mar fan you could run those zip ties through the rad no problem without hurting it. On my race car I just zip tie right though the rad and no problems what so ever (I am in hit to pass series so im always crashing and taking hard hits) so if i can bash around alot with thoses strapped onto my rad, so can you. As for making the holes, I just take a philips screw driver the diameter of the zip ties, hold the cooler or fan up to the rad and gently push it through the fins to make a hole. The vertial fins are just metal, you aint gonna hurt them. http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

[85350DROPTOP]

I know what you guys mean,i ain\'t real sure about it, but my truck has had the \"zip ties\" for 8 years. i just use the tie its self to make a path. just my opinion.

[mzoomora]

I use small diameter vacuum hose and isolator pads to keep it from rubbing into the radiator. I had one rub through one of the fins on another car I had, but it was my daily driver.

[Foxdude311]

I built my own brackets it\'s not that hard, and if you spend over 300.00 on a rad. I wouldn\'t put the weight of that on it. Rad. aren\'t ment to hold that up through the cooling tubes.