| Author | Message | ||
     Bextreme04 |
Anyone know what the CFM rating of the stock cooling fans are? | ||
| Puzzled |
I wonder if is as simple as the fan CFM rating or what the pod assembly will flow? | ||
| Cherry_bomb |
http://www.spalusa.com/pdf/30103011_SPEC.PDF#view= FitH (this is the one from the xb, bigger, maybe you'll find the exact one in the sortiment of spal) (Message edited by cherry_bomb on January 30, 2011) | ||
| Kenm123t |
air flow through the radiator pod are influenced by the fans static pressure potential and the radiator as well as the ducting intake exhaust static pressure drops. These can be planned for but real world IE wind tunnel and or raod testing are required for validation and performance over the range of operation the bike encounters | ||
| Easyrider |
Bextreme04, I am just curious why you want to know this.. | ||
| Bextreme04 |
lol... armchair fabricating. I was just looking at rodrob's new flexiglass fairings and wondering how much it would take to squeeze some cooling fans in there for street use, then i was looking at the various flow rates and sizes available from fluidyne and that led me to wonder what the size and flow rate of the stock fans were. Basically just sitting around here in southern Afghanistan dreaming about how best to blow my hard earned money on my favorite ride  | ||
| Lovedabueller |
what you need to be doing is working and not sitting around with your thumb up your ASS.... WHAT UP HOMIE???? how is life out there... | ||
| Stirz007 |
You could do a rough guestimation by looking at power draw on stock fan(s), then doing a search for cooling fans with known cfm and similar diameter/RPM/current draw - reverse engineer and maybe that might get you 'in the zone'. | ||
| Stirz007 |
Bex - after further thought, Court may know exactly the answer to your question. My suggestion is the SWAG approach. | ||
| Rodrob |
I been thinking the same thing. I've got my bike apart with the fairings on the empty frame so that I can figure out how to better seal the airflow through the radiator. While the fairings fit the bike very well, there are many places where the air can flow through the pod without going through the radiator. I'll post some detailed pics later today. Once I get that done. I'll road test it to see if I get more efficient cooling. | ||
| Rodrob |
Here's the link to the pics of the radiator detail. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/show .cgi?tpc=290431&post=1987212#POST1987212 | ||
| Bextreme04 |
lol... Scientific Wild *** Guess was exactly what i was thinking! I was actually just looking at that post and thinking "man there's plenty of room in there!". I would bet that you could even fit one of the fluidyne 6.5" in there.. they are only 2" thick and they probably flow alot better than stock too. I'd be very interested to see what it looks like when you get it all sealed up rob. Love the paint job by the way. I live up in lancaster. I actually saw you riding through Las Virginas canyon right before I left for Afghanistan... my wife just caught the flash as you went by and was like "what the f*** was that?". |
