I just bought a set of LS1 fans to replace my cheap after market ones.
Well iv read that some of you all just use radiator ties, but iv never liked using them personally.
some people said they made there own brackets for the top. lemme see what ya got.
I want as much coverage of the radiator as possible...
Thanks in advance

 

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Radiator ties=leaky radiators...

 

I have been using the radi ties now for almost 2 years and no issue. I know people down them but, I could understand them causing issue if you were infact using them to HANG the fans from the radi. But with the ls1 fans your not doing that. They sit right on the core support, so all the ties are doing is holding it from falling back.. I put rubber on the corners of the fans, zipped them up.. Just my op

 

i use zip-ties on mine too

 

These are 16" Spal fans. They are mounted on an aluminum "shroud" that holds the fans about one inch from the radiator core. There is a center divider that touches the core, so both fans have to pull through the radiator and never pull through the other fan opening. The top and bottom lips of the shroud are bolted to the metal on the top and bottom of the core.

 

Danny you dick.. I have two holes drilled at the top of my fans and have two heavy zip ties going over the core support. Pretty stealthy lol...

 

Here are my LS1 fans on my 34 inch rad. My wife's expensive camera really shows the dirt in my engine compartment. I've got a chunk of aluminum spanned across the inner mounting holes on the rad support, and a piece of aluminum angle riveted to that span. The aluminum angle fits in between the plastic ribs embossed on the top of the fan shroud. I've got a chunk of that foam rope between the aluminum and plastic in case it vibrates. On the bottom, there's a hole drilled through the plastic shroud to allow a big screw through that happened to be in the front crossmember. It's been solid as the Rock of Gibralter for the past year.

 

well i haven't even test fitted them so i was un aware that they will rest on the support... then maybe radi-ties would be the easiest way to go about it.. but i guess ill just see how they look when u drop em' in latr this wk.

 

I used garden stakes for my first set until I sold them . . . I put some rubber hose between the radiator and the fans . . . never ever over heated