Whats the benefit of installing an electric fan on a 1996 dodge dakota?

What will i need to complete the project?

Which Fans will work.

 

You might wanna search this. Its been talked about several times.

A quick overview.

You can gain a decent amount of horsepower.

There are no bolt on kits, you just need a fan, some wiring, and probably knowledge of how to make your own mounting brackets.

 

There are a few benefits. The biggest one is you FREE up horsepower by loosing the engine driven fan. You may gain 1 MPG, Maybe.

Here is a quick copy and pate from the FAQ2. You will need to figure out how to mount them up. Grab some steel from Home Depot and bend it up and drill some holes and make it secure. A good tip is if you need use cardboard as a template before you cut it up.

Electric Fans
There is not a direct bolt in kit. The best choices are to Get a dual fan unit from a Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique. or the dual fan from a 98-03 Intrepid. I think you can also use a dual fan unit out of an early/mid 90s Camaro. You may need to make custom mounts. You can also go to most parts stores or www.summitracing.com and buy universal fans, check www.ebay.com too.

 

They will mainly benefit in HP gain when a normal clutch fan would start to lock up. Normally when the clutch fan isn't engaged it isn't sucking that much HP but when it does start to lock up there is a huge power loss. Any time it's over 90* out and I'm sitting in traffic I can start to hear my fan roaring and feel a huge power loss, I swear it feels like 30HP just went away.

 

Thats true, when the fan clutch locks up its been dyno proven to rob 15-20 hp, and its also true that the fan doesn't lock up all the time. But, that fan is heavy, and there is always at least a little bit of resistance on it. I would venture to guess that even cold, that fan is still robbing at least 1-2 hp from the engine, which progressively becomes greater as the temperature activated fluid in the clutch gets hotter. I have no facts to back up that hp claim, but it seems very plausible that it would rob that much power. Now, a typical 20 amp electric fan (that only draws 20 amps as its winding up... it draws much less while its up to speed) at 20 amps and 14.4 volts is only pulling .38 hp. AND, I know in my case, I only turn it on when I'm doing "city" driving. Out on the interstate or even country roads it stays off, drawing 0 power. So to sum all that up, we have a mechanical fan that draws 15-20 hp while "on" and an electric fan that draws 0.38, and we have the mechanical fan that draws an estimated 1-2+ hp when "off" and an electric fan that draws 0.

Lol, I know we had a huge uncivil argument on this a while back hahns, but I'm still right