Simple Engineering has several fans available and I'm ready to make the change. I have a 2004 SSR that has been Magnacharged. Do I buy the one that is recommended for extreme installations? It cost $370.00 and states to be a genuine GM part. There is another fan for less that I don't think is OEM. It costs less. My guess is the $370 may be the one, but I just want to make sure.
My SSR: 05 6 sp. with 4.56 gears, ZR1 clutch, Edelbrock intake, Lunati cam, Crane rockers, C6 modified pan
I've had several years of good results using his entry level fan. I'll bump a tread called "controlling coolant temps", that shows his in comparison to the stock unit.
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My $300 fan is great and has been keeping trucks cool for years. There's about 600 in service worldwide. It's made in the USA by Flex-a-lite in Washington and they stand behind their products nicely. It's a plug-and-play into the stock three pin fan connection, provides standard SSR two speed operation and draws less current than the OEM fan while pulling more air through the radiator.
The $370 GM-based fan is made from the factory part for the C6, Z06, ZR1 and Cadillac two seater. I rewire it to make it fully compatible with the SSR two speed operation and provide the additional wiring to connect to the truck. In doing so, I eliminate the failure modes that the Bondurant Corvette fleet have found in the wiring of this fan. They are really hard on hardware and I have taken the single failure mode of that fan completelly out of the picture.
I've been careful to not require any wire splicing for either fan. Both are bolt-ins that have careful applications engineering applied. The MFK-2 ($370) haa additional wiring that pulls power and ground from substantial sources...... it's all in the instructions.
Bottom line here...... If you live in a relatively "normal" zone and have only a supercharger on a stock motor, the MFK-1 will be perfect. If you live in Arizona or Texas and have a S/C, cam and headers...or an LS7/LSX/LS454, I would only recommend the MFK-2.
The choice is yours. If you don't like the choice you make, you can always call me and I'll trade you out for the other fan...... I'm easy.
Regards,
Mike
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Anything Mike sells, he stands behind. It's priced right, for the right application and works better than the engineers designed (at a price point) at GM. Unlike any other manufacturer, Mike's products work the first time, all the time and he backs his products, no questions asked.
So, if his price is intimidating, your shopping for a discount and you get what you pay for. Actually, his price probably nets him a profit that I'd be ashamed to admit (because it's not a profit center)...but, that's just my humble opinion.
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Predictably, I got hung up on Step No. 1 (!).
I called Mike in his garage that morning (and it was an hour or two earlier in AZ) and he walked me through Step No. 1 and gave me other installation tips (realizing how mechanically challenged I was), right there on the phone.
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