Turbo Charge your blower motor!

[Rich Gio]

Yup. I'm in too.

 

[BEATAV8]

interesting.....

 

[Rich Gio]

I did this mod last night and it made a big difference. It's not often you find a cheap and easy mod for these cars. I used the 12.99$ special from Auto Zone, BTW.

Thanks for the heads up, Rick!

 

[GNRick]

Glad it worked for you.

 

[19BuickGN87]

I just installed the aluminum blower motor wheel from auto zone $12.99 plus tax part number 35601. much better air flow due to the angle and shape of the blades. Mine made contact at the top of the housing so I just lowered the cage a little on the motor shaft.

 

[696]

Pics of both, very different blade size and angles...
Just completed mine, moves air more like a "newer" car now, save your $$ and get the $12 alum wheel.

 

[GNRick]

Very nice!

 

[TLIMITED]

I,ve been wondering about this for many years.This heat in the Memphis area just plain SUCKS and a black car sure doesn't help.I am going to do this on both of mine.Thanks for the Great info!!!!

 

[GNRick]

Let us know how it works!

 

[precizion818]

Ok guys finally had time to screw with this more and finally got it working! Great mod!

I purchased both blower fans (AZ & O'reily's) to compare. I forgot to take pics, but there was no difference so save your money and go with the cheaper of the two.

Works great! Thanks for the tip!

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[John Larkin]

I just tried it an hour ago. My stocker blew just as well if not better than the AZ one. I felt no difference. AZ was nice enough to take it back but I only used it for 3 minutes maybe.

However it is a very easy swap.

 

[GNRick]

Hey John- you actually swapped the metal cage for the plastic one, right? Just want to make sure you didn't swap a new motor for the old motor.

 

[John Larkin]

Yes, that's correct. I just sat back and felt the air on my face with the stocker, then with the metal cage installed. Felt the same or maybe a little less force.

 

[Rich Gio]

I will have to borrow the flow meter from work and do before and after. I felt a diff especially on the lower speeds

 

[LSTTYPE]

I also just installed the 35601 with no improved results. On top of that, it rubbed the first time I installed it and built up heat burning up my ac blower control module (climate control). Anyone have any of these laying around?

 

[precizion818]

Funny you said that about burning up the module. Mine got pretty hot and was smoking pretty good which I shut it down immediately. None of the components on the board were damaged so I cleaned it off and tried it again. I got lucky as mine still work as best as I can tell.

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[LSTTYPE]

Well I'm screwed as the part 25500218 has long since been discontinued. I had a spare and it was bad also. I wonder if anyone can refurbish these things?

 

[precizion818]

Caspers offers an updated design, but get ready to pay some $$$. That is what I was looking at after I thought I smoked mine.

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[precizion818]

Here is the link:
http://www.casperselectronics.com/store2/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=972

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[LSTTYPE]

Cool thanks. This is going to be an expensive mistake. I'm just thankful we have vendors that offer the oddball stuff.