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Old 01-25-2018, 02:18 PM
Mxfrank Mxfrank is offline
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So it's overdriven. Overdriving the pulley helps at idle, but the fan will likely be consuming power for no reason at cruising revs. I think the viscous clutch tops out at 3500 rpm, which would be around 2700 engine rpm at a .79 ratio. So parasitic HP losses would max somewhere around 60mph.
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