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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1665 on: Wednesday,March 16, 2022, 09:13:54 PM »
I'm also a fan of the bullet connectors.  They hold up pretty well.  I add a bit of dielectric grease to ones exposed to outside influences.

Rad fans.  They stock ones are crap, period, full stop.  S1 and S2 have Renault fans wired to run backwards and they flow very little air indeed.  The TC/S have marginally better fans -- at least the fan blades turn in the correct direction -- but that is "better" only in comparison to the awful S1/2 fan.  Many aftermarket fans are designed for tight spaces and have narrow blades which, while considerably better than stock, make more noise than actual air flow.  Good rad fans have wide blades and move a huge amount of air.  Back in the day they recommended a rad fan off a 70s Mercedes.  I fit one and it works the bomb.  A good Spal fan would do the trick as well but make sure it has wide blades!

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1666 on: Thursday,March 17, 2022, 04:58:42 AM »
  Two other items I should have picked up are the removal and insertion tools, and the correct terminals for the parking light grounds.  Moss motors sells the items in kit form, so I’ll shop around a bit more.  Why now, 🤪 the front parking lights had spade connectors and that is how I installed them not really thinking about it . Re-terminating all was not fun.
  As for the fan , it may not be an original going by the schematic of having two leads, mine only has one. I do have a few other aftermarket fans laying around from my corvette I could use but like the look of the original, it’s shiny 😎.  I’ll look into the Mercedes unit . I also read another thread about the fan I may need to revisit.

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1667 on: Saturday,March 19, 2022, 08:51:52 AM »
Your dimpled, stainless panels look great!  Did you do the dimpling yourself or buy it off the shelf?

You've put a lot of detail into your car and it shows, the car is fabulous.

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1668 on: Saturday,March 19, 2022, 10:24:09 AM »
Thanks Footer,
 The dimpled panels are from…. Don’t laugh to hard. .  An old washing machine tub.
  I have a habit of saving raw material, I cut it up and save sheet stock, steel rods, copper . Not that I go out of my way to find things, or store things. I like to repurpose things like this old pool filter that cracked , cut in half made some nice flower pots. The green ones in the picture. Other items were full wall mirrors, I cut them up and built smaller wall mirrors in wood frames. Maybe I’ll add some to show off the lower section of the car at shows . 😎
  Like I say , It’s time to turn ideas into realities.
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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1669 on: Saturday,March 19, 2022, 05:04:49 PM »
   Slow going today after laying 8 pallets of sod at my daughters home. Fire ant bites an additional prize. Hiding wires and running new wires and terminals.
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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1670 on: Saturday,March 19, 2022, 06:45:50 PM »
Man I don’t miss fire ants (I used to live in Louisiana)!
The more I do the more I find I need to do....remember your ABC’s …anything but chinesium!

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1671 on: Saturday,March 19, 2022, 06:53:27 PM »
I lived in New Orleans. I was glad to be done with fire ants when I moved to NC, but I wasn’t. They’re up here too!

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1672 on: Monday,March 21, 2022, 06:03:09 AM »
Can't laugh at your resourcefulness D Man.  That's a good eye for the stainless panels.  :beerchug:

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1673 on: Wednesday,March 23, 2022, 07:04:29 PM »
  Wiring up the bonnet area from the connectors onwards and adding some items. New ground runs mimicking the S1 ground studs up front. 10 hours in and all most done with the basics. The harness will also be covered and all hidden.
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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1674 on: Wednesday,March 23, 2022, 07:08:54 PM »
Making good progress, D’man!

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1675 on: Thursday,March 24, 2022, 02:19:36 PM »
  5 bullets short of finishing the headlight wiring. Parts should be here any day now .
I decided after getting the stock fan running to test the two fan setup from my corvette that was to small .  Wow what a difference in cfm and decibels.
  With that said I had an aluminum radiator ready to go in but liked the look of the stock setup … sorry
Out came the lead weight and in with the new . I’ll pull it out later to seal the outer shell while it looks new. No polishing 🙏
   All for the best.
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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1676 on: Thursday,March 24, 2022, 02:54:31 PM »
I'd fit a deeper fan as they flow quite a bit more air.

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1677 on: Thursday,March 24, 2022, 03:14:56 PM »
  JB , maybe that’s why it didn’t cool the vette motor. 😃👍
 How do you shop for deeper or an all out better fan?
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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1678 on: Thursday,March 24, 2022, 03:19:13 PM »
Jegs has a variety of fans. https://www.jegs.com/

JB, doesn't a deeper fan run into the headlight bucket?

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Re: 1970 s2 0453R Reassembly
« Reply #1679 on: Thursday,March 24, 2022, 04:05:14 PM »
  Kendo,
   You can shift the fan unit inward, but even when I had the original fan, it didn't interfere with the headlight assembly.
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