The reason for electric fan choice on the drag cars is that I prefer an electric water pump and fan to cool the car off between rounds. The reason for the aluminum radiators is simply that they were inexpensive - around $160 at the time, and these cars are drag race only. Not cheap, but the amp rating is double what the Mark VIII pulls so it should last just fine. The single speed fan will be run with a rather expensive Flaming River controller which uses pulse modulation to vary fan speed from 50% to 100%. My new setup is the pic of the radiator and fan on the garage floor. My drag GTO was running a Taurus fan and it did a good job of keeping things cool, but it came out of a pick-a-part 10 years ago, and recently the motor was starting to make funny noises. There is also a manual switch on the dash to engage high speed if ever needed. We run his fan on low speed only with an inexpensive thermostatic control module that simply turns the fan on and off through a heavy duty solenoid. His is a two speed fan out of a Thunderbird while my fan is a single speed (but still has three wires) out of a Lincoln. My son's Firebird and my 67 GTO drag cars are set up to run the Mark VIII fans. I mounted the Fan controller inside on the lower dash area so I can tell what speed the fan is running at while driving.In another thread I mentioned about my Cruiser running the stock A/C mechanical fan with a 6.5" top pulley. I met a man who lives in Kingman Arizona named Bryan Mcculloch who ownes a business called "Custom Aluminum Radiators"I took some measurements to him with a template I made out of cardboard and explained what I was doing, he made me a radiator set up which included a 16" Spal fan and controller and I still had to move the Fan off to the left side of the radiator to clear the stock fan pulley. I used the crites motor mounts and trans kit to mount the engine and C 6. I have a 64 Galaxie 500 which I replaced my 289 2 barrell and C 4 with a 1976 Ford 460 and C 6 from a lincoln. I wanted to comment on the 64 Galaxie needing a radiator. I found out about this forum on the Ford Muscle website, also a good bunch of people. This is my first post on this forum, I have been hanging out for a while and decided the time was good to join you all, I got registered last night. I really look forward to reading your responses. What might be a viable, easy and the least expensive option. I know a lot of BBF's have been placed in 63/64 galaxies and really need to know what you guys did for radiators to keep this engine running cool. I will be running the waterpump and alternator only and an electric fan at the radiator. I bought a set of aluminum, underdriven, single belt pulleys from a forum member who took pity on me and let me have them for a us shipping. My son was impressed and now thinks I'm a whiz. Used the motor mounts from crites and with a little local area mod on the crossmember the swap was a non-event. Gonna run an Edelbrock Performer 750 to feed it. Dont sound like too much but it should make this galaxie a bit of a sleeper. 30 over with KB 9.5 forged pistons, a Pro Comp cam (mild street), stock heads (the good ones), stock intake and exhaust. Gentlemen, and I use the term losely, actually I mean it as a compliment, thanks to some of you guys I have succeeded in installing my 466 into the 1964 galaxie that it was built for.
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