This pertains to mounting an aftermarket cooling Fan

I gotta a quick question...every one preaches to not install the zip tie mounting method on any radiator especially aluminum ones. I understand about mounting the ties against the cores is not a good idea but what if you mount the ties like they tell you to and mount them inbetween the FIN and the CORE ...to where the zip tie is resting or rubbing its plastic ever so slightly against the bottom of the metal fin and not the metal of the core

why is this a bad installation technique?

 

so noone has any suggestions or rebuttles? I guess i can also just mount it as a pusher and run the threads through my condensor which is out of service....it would save me some room in the engine bay as well

ive only heard to not run the ties up against the cores which is fine but it specifically tells you in the instructions to run it btw the fin and cores and it wont do damage...ill also wrap with some electrical tape to make impact even softer and less damaging if any

any commments would be nice

 

If I were you, I'd go make some brackets out of a piece of sheetmetal and use those. It'd suck to ruin your radiator just because of something that costs $5 and a half-hour of work to make and install.

 

Or do what I did after seeing an aftermarket radiator/fan assy.
I took a sheet of 1/8" aluminum, cut to the size of my core,
including the original holes in the bottom and top of the radiator,
which I attached with stainless steel nylocks and button-head
screws. I cut the center area out to match the area of my dual
Spal fans, and then heli-arced aluminum nuts to the 'shroud' for
my fan to mount to. I again used stainless button-heads for
fasteners, and made rubber vibration-dampers from 1/8" pieces
of fuel lineto go between the fan assy and shroud. I sanded,
deburred and polished the aluminum and the button-heads. I
used two 40amp Bosch relays (one for each fan), that I made
another piece of aluminum for, and mounted them in the top
hole for a trans cooler that I don't need, having a 5-speed. The
whole thing looked so trick, that I almost didn't want to install
it! It's almost a shame I did so much pretty-work, since you can
barely see that it's not a stock set-up! With my Hyper-tech
fan switch and 160 deep-throat stat, my car has yet to run over
170 in Tucson traffic with the a/c on.