[DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question

[Rob Dumoulin]

Hey now. Don't be dissin my club.
On Jun 16, 2012 1:51 AM, "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Usually, you use a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) power supply for a DC
> motor.  I guess you could use a stepper motor to adjust a potentiometer (a
> pot), but that would be like using a club to dice onions.
>
> Ken
>
> From: Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com>
> To: Justin Greisberg <justingreisberg at hotmail.com>
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question
>
> I haven't started my car with it yet, but I have Jon Haas's fan
> controller.  It has a stepper motor to control fan speeds.  I hope I'm
> saying that right.  I'm not an EE.
>
> At any rate, it pulses to both fans to run them as fast as necessary to
> keep the temps down.  Pretty cool.
>
> Like I said, I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know how well it work.  If
> it is like the rest of his stuff, it works perfectly.
>
> On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Justin Greisberg wrote:
>
> >
> > I am pretty sure I got the sensors based on the info on sean korb's
> site, as references in Will's message.
> >
> > I may have gotten my radiator from absolute radiator - it was closer to
> $500 and that was a few years ago.  But it came just fine.
> >
> >
> >> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question
> >> From: chance.dorsey at yahoo.com
> >> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:44:05 -0500
> >> To: justingreisberg at hotmail.com
> >>
> >> Hey Justin,
> >>
> >> Thanks for posting this. I would love to see the pictures you have.
> Also, do you happen to have the part numbers for the sensors that you used?
> Any other info you have would be awesome.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Chance
> >>
> >> On Jun 14, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Justin Greisberg <
> justingreisberg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I got my fluidyne radiator from a cheap online source - saved a ton of
> moneyI searched the internet and found a racing supply shop that carried
> right angle rubber hoses that made the turns for me, so no special metal
> fittings needed. I searched the internet and found a pantera guy who told
> the story of some chrysler/jeep sensors that will fit in the radiator
> holes. They were cheap at auto parts store, but they never seem to get hot
> enough to turn on the fan. I ended up putting a temp sender in the upper
> thermostat metal pipe hole that then activates my fans when that temp
> reaches 190. I got a couple of electric fans, i think from Spal or
> something, not too fancy, straight blades, and I took some strips of
> aluminum and made thin long brackets that have right angle bends and mount
> the fans to rivets I put in the top and bottom of the radiator - the top
> and bottom are just metal plates. just be sure not to drill into the
> cooling tubes below the plates
>  (easy to be careful here). I use no other shroud and my car never
> overheats. Although I did lots of my own designing for the pantera, not all
> of my ideas worked out (see my fuel injection frustrations last year). But
> this was not too expensive and looks great!!! way cheaper than $1000 for
> whole setup pre made, and I did it myself! justin
> >>> i can forward pics to anyone interested.
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