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Review on πŸ’¨ High Performance Fan - Spal 30102120 - 16 Inch Straight Blade by Michael Syph

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great but noisy

I had problems with my '86 Corvette overheating and although fitting a new radiator made things a lot better it still got too hot in traffic. This fan solved that problem. A standard fan spins at around 1700 CFM, but this one spins at 2400 CFM and that makes all the difference. Fixed overheating issue, now I never drive over 200 degrees in hot Southern California traffic. 2 things to watch out for when it works because it moves such a large volume of air, it's very noisy to the point road users can hear it and see where the noise is coming from two small devices next to each other. Unfortunately this is not possible with early C4s. Second, if you don't upgrade the fan relay, that fan will burn them out. When running this fan draws 17 amps but when it starts it peaks at almost 50 amps so make sure all connections etc are good. Finally, if you want to install this turnkey fan for an early C4, check out DeWhitts. Heatsinks, they ship this unit with a custom mount and have a precision connector on the fan so it's truly plug and play.

Pros
  • Quality construction
Cons
  • I won't say anything