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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: srfjay on October 15, 2008, 06:04:46 PM

Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: srfjay on October 15, 2008, 06:04:46 PM
So after i posted up what was going on with my car i went back to it and bleed the system over again. In all i bleed it about 5 times. I took off the clutch fan and i removed all the a/c including aux fan condenser ect. I drove the car with no fans and it would not overheat so i think it was just air bubbles in the system .
  But i allready ordered the electric fan so i just installed it for more cooling then the clutch fan. it is a 16" flex-a-lite fan with 2500 cfm. I hooked it up to the aux wires with a over ride so i can turn it on if i want to.
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan006.jpg)
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan007.jpg)
Here are some of the car.
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan003.jpg)
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan008.jpg)
and the 325is
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan004.jpg)
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan002.jpg)
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/srfjay/fan001.jpg)
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: EN318isPDX on October 15, 2008, 06:25:40 PM
nice collection you got going!
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: nomad on October 15, 2008, 07:23:24 PM
so was it air bubbles or are you saying the A/C system blocked a good amount of air from the rad?
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: srfjay on October 15, 2008, 08:14:05 PM
Quote from: nomad;58635
so was it air bubbles or are you saying the A/C system blocked a good amount of air from the rad?


 I am not sure since i took out the a/c the same time i did the last bleed of the system . But i am sure it does help to remove all that stuff from the front to help air get to the rad. All in all it runs great now i am very happy with it
 As for mods it has braided brake lines, markd chip, m3 ca with tree house racing ca bushings, 328is injectors .
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: quinn11m20 on October 15, 2008, 08:51:08 PM
When you wired your electric fan, you ran it through the Aux. fan wiring, did you keep the Aux. fan in front. Or did you use the wiring and mount a switch on the dash. You see.. I want to do the same thing. 1st remove fan clutch, 2nd wiring up electric fan. Did you use the ceramic heat sink that the original aux. fan has, or what.  I would like to know how you did it. Could you e-mail me some direction. at quinn11mc275@yahoo.com .
 Thank you. Tony.
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: srfjay on October 15, 2008, 10:30:09 PM
I did not use the heat sink. All i did was cut the wires going in to the stock aux and splice them in to the electric fan. The brown is the ground and the black is power the red not being used. And i put a 20a inline fuse form fan to aux wires. If i did it wrong could someone let me know. Plus i am not sure were the thermostat switch is.
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: crazzy_hippo on October 16, 2008, 04:06:19 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/ISS8634/fan007111.jpg)

Thats the location of the thermostat switch for the fan
Title: no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.
Post by: srfjay on October 16, 2008, 06:05:41 AM
thanks i thought so but when i read others saying they run the fan from that it does no make sense to me. So what i did is ok then just cut the aux fan wires and splice them into the new fans wire? i looked all over and could not find pics to which wires to splice oh well it works just dont want to mess anything up.
Thanks for the help guys maybe i will take some pics of the wires that i used.