Here is how it sits. any comment appreciated. The fin tips are real close to the radiator. Very close to firing this puppy up.

Looks like the correct way to me.

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

where did you get the fan???

Let me get this straight your honda has 1.6 liters and my bottle of mountain dew has 2

Fan came from Concours Car Parts

Richard,

I'd tried a solid 6 blade fan like that and it roared like a lion at 3000 rpm. Those are usually reserved for fluid clutch drives. I still have a fluid clutch and solid fan set in the barn that came of my 57 Mercury. I use a 6 bladed flex fan on my 56 Fairlane. It runs quite no matter the rpm and doesn't steal power at high rpm either. 

Jerome  

Without a clutch it might give the waterpump bearing a hard time too

Gary - 1958 Star Customline and 1940 Ford Deluxe Hotrod

I've been running a six blzde fan on my f100 with a 292 for several

years with no problems. It doesn't see much high speed use, so I

haven't noticed any excessive noise. Worth a try.

55f100

West Monroe,La.

While living on a mountain in Wyoming, a neighbor showed me how a flex fan works on a truck - not great.  At high altitudes and loads - lower gears / higher revs, just when additional cooling air would be nice - the vehicle slows down and the flex fan flattens out. Not a good match. Just the change to a non-flex steel fan was an instant improvement. Speedway used to have the best price for the steel and aluminum both.

Noise wasn't a problem on my bird until I put the smaller "speed up" pulley on there (to make the waterpump run faster). Many vehicles just don't have the room needed for a fan clutch - but the birds do and that turned down the noise.

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Howdy,



I am using a Hayden 19" 6 blade aluminum fan with a clutch on my 292.



Hayden makes a 6 blade 18" and 19" fan along with a suitable clutch that will bolt to the front of a Y.



The entire assembly is very light.








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The photo of the 6 blade fan looks really heavy & cumbersome. I had a 6 blade on my 57 car as it was at one time used for towing a holiday trailer, but it was not like that one. It looked like a 6 blade version of the regular fans..

Paul