FD V-Mount Pics Up

[fritts]

I am glad someone commented on the cradle mount of the V-mount. I am dead set against hard mounting a radiator, to me its just asking for a failure. Almost any vehicle you find on the road does not hard mount a radiator and there are reasons behind it. We are using a fairly hard foam rubber to cradle the radiator. The top radiator hold downs will actually squeeze the radiator and keep it from moving/vibrating, within reason. We have no plans to support AC based on the complexity and the heat exchanger blocking airflow. The fans that are used are not the stock units. With the stock fans thickness and using a cross-flow radiator did not lend themselves well for the way we mounted the radiator.

Thanks for the comments

[fikren]

Originally Posted by fritts

I am glad someone commented on the cradle mount of the V-mount. I am dead set against hard mounting a radiator, to me its just asking for a failure. Almost any vehicle you find on the road does not hard mount a radiator and there are reasons behind it. We are using a fairly hard foam rubber to cradle the radiator. The top radiator hold downs will actually squeeze the radiator and keep it from moving/vibrating, within reason. We have no plans to support AC based on the complexity and the heat exchanger blocking airflow. The fans that are used are not the stock units. With the stock fans thickness and using a cross-flow radiator did not lend themselves well for the way we mounted the radiator.

Thanks for the comments

So the fans that you are using, will you be offering those with the kit once its completed or more of a "we recomend using X fans with this application"?

Completly understand the A/C deletion. On a note with that though, if you were to use brackets similar to how Chuck did his, I wonder if you could extend the brackets to a stable lenght to where you had a nice gap between the A/C heat exchanger and the radiator. That, theoretically, should give plenty of room for air to hit the radiator without having to go through the A/C, especially with the angle that it looks like your using for the radiator. Only drawback there would be, you would almost have to supply some kind of prefabbed A/C replacement line to make it a kind of do it yourself install kit. Personally for my needs I don't have A/C so it doesn't matter to me at all, just happen to know that alot of people seem to like that frosty cold air in the summers.

Again can't wait to see some finalized pictures seems you guys are heading in a good direction.

Jonathan

[fritts]

With the fans I am going to let the user decide what they want to do. I have fitted multiple fans in different configurations and sizes. I will let the user decide if they want to go with the "cheaper" fans or flex a lites. I think our prices will reflect the differences based on the parts we do or don't provide. We will also offer the rad only package for those that want to fab or use an FMIC for their IC. I'm pretty open at this point to provide whatever is asked beyond AC.