Re: cooling questions...

"Mr.Nice." <mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> ok, my mind is mulling over some modifications for my land rover,
> keeping the 2.5 n/a diesel.
>
> would there be any advantages to fitting an engine oil cooler?
>
> ditto for an intercooler?
>
> I'm considering an electric fan.
> would it be best to fit a big electric fan in the same place as the
> fan is now? or is infront of the radiator better? (I know some fans
> are designed to suck and others to blow).
> I'm hoping to gain a faster warm-up.

Last winter I took my fan off and ran all winter till the weather started to
get hot.
I didn't see the temperature go above half even when the weather started to
get hot, but chickened out and put the fan back on b4 it overheated.

On or around Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:57:01 -0000, "George Spigot"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>
>"Mr.Nice." <mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> ok, my mind is mulling over some modifications for my land rover,
>> keeping the 2.5 n/a diesel.
>>
>> would there be any advantages to fitting an engine oil cooler?
>>
>> ditto for an intercooler?
>>
>> I'm considering an electric fan.
>> would it be best to fit a big electric fan in the same place as the
>> fan is now? or is infront of the radiator better? (I know some fans
>> are designed to suck and others to blow).
>> I'm hoping to gain a faster warm-up.
>
>Last winter I took my fan off and ran all winter till the weather started to
>get hot.
>I didn't see the temperature go above half even when the weather started to
>get hot, but chickened out and put the fan back on b4 it overheated.
>

I did that with a Di diesel minibus, in the winter. It never even got near
overheating, even in slow traffic.