Last 2 weekends I worked on creating a fan shroud. Plan is to use the Passat OEM fan so it'll play nice with the ECU. Wanted to use the Passat radiator too but it was too large to fit under the hood. Looked at using the GT6 radiator but with the engine so far back the Gap between the radiator and the engine looked ridiculous. Decided to buy a cheap Spitfire radiator as it sits farther back. Yah it's from a 4 cyl but the radiator area looked about the same. The GT6 is more vertical where the Spitfire is more horizontal. If it's a problem we'll probably go with a custom radiator However most hotrods, including my last engine swap, seem to have problems cooling in traffic not doing high HP runs.. which tends to be due to not enough air flow over the radiator and not the radiator size. So this car will be getting a fan shroud which should greatly improve the low speed cooling. Anyway back to the fabrication.
Fan shroud version 1 I created out of some aluminum sheet laying around. Thought it'd make a nice shroud to go with the aluminum radiator. And not having to paint it was a plus. It was going ok but it was starting to crack from some of the bending and joining the bent over flanges was looking like a drag. The metal was probably a bit too thick for what I was doing with it.
Fan shroud version 2 I made out of some 18 ga metal I had left. Working with the sheet steel was fun. It was easier to bend and I could easily weld bits together. Anyway it is pretty much complete except for paint.
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