cooling fan

[town325i]

what fans is everyone using on there m50 conversion's please im just trying to see what is in the scrapy down the road

[Cook318IS]

e36 328i fan... only just fits. I mean literally you can't get a fag paper between the fan and the chassis! its 16" iirc.

[bimanut]

e34 a/c fan plus i used the viscous fan on mine as well

I remember reading that some one had used a viscous and used a strap on the back of the gbox.
Was this you?
If so do you have any pics of how you did it?
I like the idea of using the viscous as well.

[town325i]

how the hell did you get a viscous fan in there the ones ive seen have hardly any room between the rad and front of the engine

[RichIS]

ive totaly got rid of the viscous and am going to be using a electric fan on the front of the rad off wat ? i dont know yet ill see wat the scrappie brings lol

[town325i]

would someting like this be any good ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/14-UNIVERSAL-RADI ... 3359a599bf

[bimanut]

e34 a/c fan plus i used the viscous fan on mine as well

I remember reading that some one had used a viscous and used a strap on the back of the gbox.
Was this you?
If so do you have any pics of how you did it?
I like the idea of using the viscous as well.

Yes, I did that. I used the standard e36 328i radiator and a viscous fan blade that was quite thin (dont know what BMW I got it off, have wrecked too many to remember). I also had to trim the ends of the fan blade to allow it to clear the lhs radiator tank. if you go to my post http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... highlight= there are a couple of pics of the engine bay.

Fan is close to the radiator core (probably 20mm) so I anchored the gearbox using a woven earth strap to the chassis so it wouldnt be able to move foward under sudden braking. The woven strap also wouldnt transfer vibrations through to the body like a solid mount would.

Motor is mounted on standard e36 engine mounting arms onto e28 M5/535 rubber mounts.

if you want better details i can take some close-up pics.

Iknow it wouldnt be easy but some pics of the strap,rubber mounts and viscous fan would be great

[DanThe]

would someting like this be any good ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/14-UNIVERSAL-RADI ... 3359a599bf

That looks a bit sh1t TBH, E36 fan works well, keep it BMW and I will sort you a wiring loom to run the twin speed

[town325i]

sounds like a good deal to me Dan

[Cook318IS]

would someting like this be any good ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/14-UNIVERSAL-RADI ... 3359a599bf

That looks a bit sh1t TBH, E36 fan works well, keep it BMW and I will sort you a wiring loom to run the twin speed

Dan, i dont suppose you know what pin is what on a three pin 80/88 degree sensor?

[town325i]

im thinking this one would be good enough

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bmw-e30-a-c-elect ... 19ba1d55bd

[DanThe]

You have to fit these with brackets town, the E36 or E34 will screw straight into the front end, give me a shout when you finish work this week and I will show you round the track slag

[town325i]

You have to fit these with brackets town, the E36 or E34 will screw straight into the front end, give me a shout when you finish work this week and I will show you round the track slag

ok sound i will be about on saturday if thats fine with you

[booomer]

I'm after an electric fan setup too and was wondering if there is a plug and play ish bmw offering. I suppose the e36 pusher fan is the one to go for but what would i do in terms of plugging it in and as far as mounting it would it mount to my e34 radiator ok?

[Brianmoooore]

Plug and play would be an E30 aircon electric fan, complete with loom to the fusebox.

[booomer]

Too late, just bought a spal pusher fan so that will be going in soon!