<VV> Electric fans

[Ron]

Are you sure that the 911's good cooling is just due to the blower and not 
to much better finning of the heads and cylinders (at much higher cost, of 
course!)?  Why don't you just use a 911 powertrain?

RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JVHRoberts at aol.com>
To: <vairologist at verizon.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Electric fans


>
> Don't get me wrong, I complimented them on their effort. Heck, he  had 
> DATA,
> and that's more than anyone else has provided, even ME! I think you  all 
> did
> GREAT work!!
>
>
> I do have a 911 blower/alternator assembly. However, I have so many other
> projects (including two houses!) that I have damn little time for this 
> stuff.
> Hopefully, when I retire SOON, I will undertake this project in earnest 
> instead
> of just collecting parts!
> My thinking was a reversed engine with a 915 transaxle (which I have) and
> then everything works. Heck, even with a standard rotation, a serpentine 
> belt
> will fix the rotation issue!!
> The reason I think a 911 fan will work is simple, 911s have GREAT cooling!
> Hard to beat that sort of logic, given that a 911 is a similarly direct 
> air
> cooled engine, etc. Not a hard extrapolation.
>
> Maybe take the 911 fan/alternator assembly, tie the stator directly to the
> stator of a dedicated alternator, and make it a synchronous motor! 
> Alternators
> acting as motors can make a LOT of HP, well over 10 HP if done correctly.
> Anyone  up for trying THAT?
>
> In a message dated 7/31/2007 6:42:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> vairologist at verizon.net writes:
>
> Smitty  Says:  I just posted to a friend, my feelings on this fan
> controversy.  Then thought to myself, why not share this with the  group. 
> I have read,
> listened to,  ignored and deleted but the crap  just won't go away.  I am 
> a
> tinkerer.  I love to try things just to  see if they will work.  Sometimes 
> they
> work real well and sometimes not  so well.  The point is, I got off my 
> keester
> and tried them.  I  didn't sit around blathering at others on and on about
> what I thought would  work.  I didn't argue with others because they had a
> different  opinion.  I got out my tools and set to work to see if I could 
> do what I
> wanted.  Why don't you guys give it a try yourself.  If you think a 
> Porsche
> fan running at 10,000 rpm is the hot ticket then buy yourself one and 
> crank
> it up and see.  If it blows all to hell then you have a valid  negative
> comment to make.  But until you actually do it, kindly keep your  pie hole 
> shut
> about what will or won't work.  If you think an electric  powered axial
> flow blower powered by a 50 lb electric motor supplied by a  75 lb truck
> battery is the way to go, then get off your ass and prove  it.
> A man had an idea that he thought would work.  He gave it  his best shot 
> and
> tried to sell the idea.  Bob, Ken, and Frank pretty  much proved that the 
> idea
> had deficiency's.  So what is new.  The  laws of physics prevails.  I 
> didn't
> believe it would work anyway.   He still has my admiration for putting the
> package together.  That's a  hell of a lot more than you vociferous yammer 
> jaws
> have accomplished in the  last week.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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