With my setup (355 TPI), I have a decent cam, and headers with a 3" exhaust. Here is my cooling setup: stock 84 Camaro radiator, new AC Delco water pump, one electric cooling fan running all the time, and the thin air dam that you can only see on cars without the ground effects. I don't have one of those big a$$ IROC ones. Will I be okay? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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1984 Camaro Sport Coupe - 73K Miles, 5.0 Carbed LG4, COMPLETELY stock except for a K&N Air Filter, F41 Suspension Package, 700R4 Tranny, 3.08 Open Rear End, New Paint
Best 1/4 Mile Run:
16.760 @ 80.74 MPH

Coming Soon:
Modified 355 TPI
Headers
3" Exhaust
Aluminum Drive Shaft
3.27 Disc Brake Posi Rear

 

Drive the car, if it seems to be getting too hot, then your answer is no, it is not enough.

My 87 Formula has 2 Cooling fans, One turns on at 222°F 105°C and the other turns on with the AC. I was looking at an 86 Camaro with TPI and it only had one Larger Fan. Each car seems to be unique on what it needs for cooling, things like clogged water passages in the engine, would cause your car to overheat.

In older cars, that had the fan attached to the waterpump would cool off when you reved the engine to about 1500 RPM in neutral., I dont think this is the case with electric fans.

I have seen though, if you do not have enough cooling, people put fans on BOTH sides of the radiator, one pushing from the front, the other pulling from the back side to help with cooling.

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87 Formula 5.1 converted to TPI Yellow/Black
SLP cam, headers, cat-back exhaust
Ported & polished TPI intake
Gil Younger (no yo-yo) Shift Kit
Aluminum Driveshaft
3.73 Posi gear
Baer 12" brakes 4 wheels
Hotchiss strut tower brace
South side machine frame connecters
Custom reinforced control arms and pan hard bar.
Custom Leather interior

87 Formula TPI (5 Speed) Yellow/Gray STOCK

83 Camaro (Parts)
83 T/A (parts)

www.3rdgenformula.com

 

one big fan was enough for the TPI corvettes.

 

My car needs both. One on all the time, and i wired the second to my control, which i use when driving around town, in traffic, racing, or whenever the engine gets hot.
If you have a good radiator, you may get by with one.
The cars with one fan have a bigger one, and the dual setup uses smaller fans. My v6 fan was a good 3 inches bigger than my dual fans are.

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'88 RS (originally 2.8)
-350, .040 over, vette alum. L98s, stock tpi.
-305 injectors & chip
-TES headers & edelbrock cat back
-3.73 gears, 700r4.
Best with 2.8-17.4@77mph
Best with 305-15.0@93mph
Best with 356-13.7@101mph
on a 2.050 60 ft.
(Damn the 2.8!)