<VV> testing Tom's cooling system

[Bill Hubbell]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crawford Rose" <crawfordrose at msn.com>
To: <BobHelt at aol.com>; "virtualvairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> testing Tom's cooling system


Bob, 19 years of Corvairing; Your assertions regarding the scientific method 
on the technical side are fine but that discussion is supposed to be on 
Fastvairs.  The casual Corvair user is led to believe that the stock system 
is somehow defective while it is not, that an electric fan would be 
superior, etc., and, in my opinion, the magnesium fan is very sufficient for 
street and highway use.  The comments about the stock fan are constantly 
negative. This debate about flipping fanbelts does go back to 1960, however, 
the decades long debate about testing a replacement system doesn't belong on 
Virtual Vairs, in my opinion. It's a racing issue only.  If people can't 
seem to afford to repair their cars to stock specs, I don't foresee this 
thread being of much use. What does it have to do with maintaining and 
preserving a corvair?  If this is the new purpose of VV, to explore new 
technologies, I'd rather see discussions of Honda VTEC transplants (160 hp 
DIN) or electric hybrids than Tom's electric fan which you have already 
assessed to be mathematically insufficient.  The controversy will go on 
forever...
Crawford
  snip: I don't know how long you've been around Corvairs, but I know this 
discussion has been going on for several decades now. So it might now be 
possible to shed some light on the technical side of this discussion and 
leave the emotions out of it. If we don't run a test by an independent third 
party, the controvesy may just go on forever.
  Regards,
  Bob Helt