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Originally Posted by Terran200sx
How good's your memory? Seriously though, you don't really want to be overcooling or undercooling your engine, in the long run it's cheaper to wire them correctly and not have to worry about it. That highvoltages switch is fairly dangerous, i knew a kid who had some POS wal-fart fogs that were wireed like that, and the switch melted to his dash one night. Same reason they don't put Ammeters in cars anymore, too much voltage in one place. That and it's going ot be a real pain to have to think about those fans every single time you turn your car on.
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Thanks for your concern Terran. So far, I haven't forgotten to switch the fan on when deemed necessary. It's in the 20* F - 30* F temperature-range outside, which should more than keep the car around normal operating temperature. Right now, the only time I turn the fans on is when I'm sitting at a red light. Other than that, they stay off.
ittamaticstatic, therein lies the problem. The A/C doesn't work. If it did, I'd have gone that route already. I didn't do this without asking others around how they did it. And this is just a preliminary setup. During the spring, I'll be overhauling the whole engine bay. Instead of this kind of setup, I'll be going with a sensor (of sorts), that'll turn on the fans based on the temperature of the coolant. It'll turn on the fans at say 205*, and turn them off at around 180*. These sensors come with different sensitivities, depending on your needs. And I'll do the same thing as I did with the setup I already have, i.e., use a 30-amp fuse to keep it from burning the fan motors. So I'll be taking that route eventually.
This write-up was not really meant for someone to use as a permanent setup. My stock fan had taken a crap, and I needed a cooling solution ASAP, so this was the best available option for me at the moment. I'll sticky this just in case someone needs to have a primitive setup just to start with (but not use as a permanent option), and also to show credit to ittamaticstatic's post on one of the ways of doing in correctly.