[alfa] Electric Cooling Fan

["Nathan Goyette" <nathan_goyette@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Just to throw in my two cents, when I bought my 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee
the sales literature boasted that the model year changeover to an electric
cooling fan saved "up to" 20 bhp.  That was for the 5.9 Litre engine, and
I'll grant that salespeople are optimistic, but it's still significant.

>
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:30:07 +1300
> From: Graham&Joan Hilder <graham.joan@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Mechanical vs electric fans
>
> In Digest 404, Biba wrote:
> "Whilst I'm more concerned with originality, I have wondered what the True
> hp difference between running a mechanical fan and the additional drag on
> the alternator from running an electric fan is. I'm guessing, on average,
> about 1 to  2 hp difference."
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