Originally Posted by Steve Hellums
I don't have a laptop, that does sounds like a good little experiment. The only problem with taking temp measurements as you said to do, is right now my car is cleaned up and stored for the winter. You wouldn't believe the amount of salt they put on the roads up here in Indiana. When I left work one day last week I was wishing I had a camra to take a picture of the road, it had so much salt on it, it was actually white. Just looking at the HE with gap of 1&1/8" between it and the AC condencer & radiator, I don't think when the cooling fan kicks on it can not be pulling any air thur the HE. Just in my opinion the thing that would help cool the I/C & HE coolant the most would be to install electric fans on the HE. But the main problem there is there is no room to do so where the HE sits right now, I've not looked to see if it could be moved forward to make room to put fans behind it. I have talked with a radiator builder about adding a 20" wide 6" tall 3/4" thick trans cooler right on top of the HE and putting a couple fans on it, but he said the way a trans cooler was designed that it probably wouldn't help much. There is only about 3" from the back of the bumper to the AC condencer, witch leave's a guy with little option of doing something with cooling fans and a taller HE. The thinest fans that I have found was 2.04" thick, so that only leave's 1" for the thickness of a taller HE. I guess I'm back to the drawing board

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Well I went back to the drawing board, I pulled the whole front end of the car off (front bumper cover). I moved the HE forward 1&1/4 inches, now I have 2&1/4 inches behind the HE. As stated above there's only 1&1/8 inches behind it from the factory and there is no way when the cooling fan kick's on that it will pull any air thru the HE. I'll be ordering 2 - 6.5" cooling fan's that pull 330 cfm each to install on the HE. I want to install a heat gauge on the HE, there is a plug in the top of the HE, does anybody happen to know what type of threads they are? I need to find out so I know what size of threads on the end of the temp. probe I need. I will try to post up some pic's of what I did to move the HE some time today if I get a chance.