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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SkidRoe" data-source="post: 64447" data-attributes="member: 3290">There are a few things that you need to consider in this conversion.  The most important one is that compared to an automotive cooling / fan system, you have no ram air effect pushing air through the heat exchangers when the vehicle is in motion.  With automotive systems, a large part of your air flow is generated this way.  So you will need to use the bigest fans that you can fit.  You will also need to ensure that the shroud/plenum that you mount these fans on covers the entire area of the heat exchanger so that you are drawing air across the entire surface.  Also, you should make your shroud/plenum is as deep as possible (maximise the distance between the surface of the heat exchanger and the fan) so that you have some settling volume to balance the flow of air being drawn over the entire surface of the cooler.  Finally, avoid the use of pusher fans at all cost.  Balancing the air flow is extremely difficult unless you use a very large (deep) shoud/plenum.HTH</blockquote>