Has anybody installed or know if you can put an electric cooling fan on a Banshee? I don't know how well one would work if it was running off the same circuit that the lights are seeing how when the rpm's drop the lights dim. I don't know if they make a deep cycle battery small enough and with enough power to fit on a banshee and run a fan. I will be putting a switch and an indicator light on so I can turn it on and off at will. I just don't want it to overheat while riding on the dunes. I wonder if I could hook it up to the stator wires and run it that way. I was thinking about using a polaris fan. I can't seem to find any others. Thanks

 

Two things you could do is by putting a coolhead on it or buy the oversize radiator from Toomey. That what I did and never have any problem at all.

For the fan you could make it work if you hook up the wiring to the light wire and it will turn on when you want to just turn on the light switch on. You might to have the stator rewound and have it done by Ricky stator. They do a good job on it. Battery maybe all depend how much watt does it draw from the fan.

I have never heard anybody ever do this.

good luck

 

The cheapest what to fix the cooling is to:

Ride faster.LOL

I did hear fo someone using a Boat motor fan that pull/pushes air out of a motor mox on Inboard and I/O motors, they only cost $15-$25 and have a two wire hok up.

Smitty

 

Hmm... Well, first things first. You should install a temp gauge to know how hot you're running. Go to my site and click on the MODS button for details on how to build one fr less than $10.

After you do that you can do some riding to see how you're running. I used to run about 180 to 200 in the dunes which was hotter than I liked. I installed the Pro-Design Megaimpeller and I now run 160 to 180 degreees in the same conditions... I was amazed at the difference. I installed a cool head and now I run 160 to 180 degrees... That's right, no difference whatsoever with the coolhead. I wasn't actually expecting it to help, I wanted it for the intercahngeable domes. Since putting in the impeller I have not overheated once with the exception of last weekend when I got a little enthusiastic on my jetting and was running lean for a little while.

Oh, back to the fan. The current produced by the Banshee is AC so a DC fan like a car wouldn't work as far as I know. Also, the stock stator can barely keep the lights lit so you might not be able to run the fan and lights at the same time. Also, remember that when the fan is off it will impede airflow through the radiator some. Personally, I would go with thimpeller and temp gauge and see where you are at before messing with the fan.