Quite a few people run a single fan from a 3.8l taurus which fits a 65 radiator like it was ment to be there. For a dual fan the focus had them dunno about dimentions though

I have a 27" 2 core installed now.

The Taurus fan is so wide it wont fit in a hundred years.  The contour fan is the right widty, but way too long unless. You run a much wider radiator

that may work, found this diagram online at a jeep forum..

Ya sorry those are indeed contour fan measurements, it was a post on a jeep site for mod using a contour fan

mainiac1 wrote:

What years contour?

I've spent a lot of time at the yards looking at these fans.  I've found only two different styles in the contours, a single fan or a double fan.  The single fan is more uncommon.  All the dual units seem to be the same.

Took me a while to figure out removal too,...no room to pull the fan up and out...you have to crawl under the car and drop the radiator out of the car, then the fan will come out...then I found that the junk yards charge a huge premium on dual electric fans.

I found that ebay sells brand new contour fans for not much more than you'd spend at a junkyard...

in the end, I'm currently running a slim single $30 ebay fan...however my plan is to go to a junkyard, and cut off the harness from a car, then order a new contour fan from ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dorman-Electric-Fan-Replacement-Ford-Mercury-Contour-Mystique-2-0-2-5L-Each-/331146737911?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&fits=Make%3AFord%7CModel%3AContour&hash=item4d19e238f7&vxp=mtr
 

Last edited by jeremy (3/08/2014 11:38 AM)

Yeah, there's contour dual fans for $100 on ebay too. Undecided which way I'm going yet.
heres a link of another forum that has some pretty good discussion on these.
http://forums.corral.net/forums/general-mustang-tech/1239233-wiring-contour-dual-fan-setup.html

Last edited by mainiac1 (3/08/2014 12:08 PM)

Nice looking setup...did they come with the aumn shroud or did you fab that? Where's you buy it if I can ask?

Lil' Hoss wrote:

It came with the shroud, that is what I  really liked about this setup, I bought it from a company in Humboldt, Iowa that custom builds radiators. I found it on ebay and then contacted him directly to question him about it and then bought it, the link to the one I bought is below. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/67-70-FORD-MUSTANG-COUGAR-ALUMINUM-RADIATOR-W-SPAL-FANS-AND-SHROUD-30102022-/290911988529?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item43bbb4ab31
 

Looks nice, but Wow...their proud of their stuff aint they!

My last Fox mustang had the 98 Lincoln Mark VIII fan and it worked amazingly. You have to trim it a little so that it will fit between the pump pulley and the radiator. I had about 1/8" clearance, but it worked great.
On my 66 I recently put in a 2000 contour v6 dula fan. It with with little to no triming, and is very thin. I have not used it through a summer yet, so I am a little skeptical about its performance, but I was able to get it for $60 at the wrecking yard.

BobN

mainiac1, I have never seen that temp sensor before, interesting and really simple way to control the fans, the DCC fan controller I used isn't cheap either at $190, what I like about it is that the first fan comes on at about 40% speed and then ramps up to full speed as necessary and the second fan comes on at about 40% and ramps up to full speed if needed to control the temp. At least that is how I remember what the instructions say. I like that it comes on slowly because both fans  at full speed are quite noisy. 

Using a temp switch will work great, if you wire it up right. If you have A/C, you will need two relays. The temperature switch will provide a ground to activate one relay, and the A/C compressor will provide power to activate the other relay. Be sure that the A/C clutch feed is taped before the clutch instead of after it. The replay will not pass enough current to activate the clutch. Also, both relays must be wired to the high speed wire of the fan. If you run both the low and the high speed setting it can burn up the fan. If you want to get creative, and don't mind having three relays, I can send you the XOR logic to have a dual speed relay controller for the signals I described above.

I have attached a link to a list of common temperature switches. select the thread, connector and temperature settings you want. Placement of the switch will determine the temperatures you want. If you place it in the upper radiator hose, hot tank of the radiator, thermostat housing, or in the intake, you will want a setting greater than your thermostat. If you place it in the discharge tube, or cold tank of the radiator you will need a cooler temperature than your thermostat - a 200 degree reading there is trouble.

I ran a setup like this for years on a few cars and it is very reliable. I am currently building a variable speed fan controller for my current car, just because I can, and because I cant stomach spending a couple hundred for a fan controller.

I currently have a temp switch for my fan in the heater hose coming from the intake. I used the heater tubes from a fuel injected mustang. They look nice, and have a NPT port for the fuel injection temp sensor. If you grab one from the wrecking yard, get the mating adapter that threads into the intake. You will have to drill and tap the hole to be larger for the adapter. Also, there is a small nipple to feed water through the ERG spacer. I cut that off and welded it shut.

http://www.wellsve.com/custom_searches/ds_fans.php?showall=yes

BobN