Fan Shroud recommendations

I am tired or the rabid squirrels on a chalkboard sounds that come and go. I have the cheap chrome shroud and recently tore down the whole top of the engine to cure the noises. Riveted, JB Welded all loose stuff. They squirrels are back. I just want a stock/inexpensive shroud. Nothing fancy. It has a vertical oil cooler in front. Alternator conversion. No Engine ID numbers under the Alt. mount.

J.C.Whitney?

Thanks,
Craig

Go with the stock OEM doghouse shroud. You can check the classifieds at The Samba or check with www.howardvw.com.

Simple fix might be to look into aluminum rivets and a hand riveter. Little ones ought to fix the problem, no?
Make a bunch of little 90-degree flanges about two inches long and half an inch wide out of band aluminum, drill two 1/8-inch holes in them - one at each end - and connect all your tins to each other. You can drill them if you need to remove stuff.
Again, that's the Dr. Frankenstein quick-fix method. I wouldn't suggest it if you hadn't already used JB Weld. ... :)

Craig,
I agree with Recardo.
Keepin mind that "OEM Doghouse" doesn't mean 36HP with doghouse added aftermarket fanshroud.
There NEVER WAS an OEM 36hp style shroud with a doghouse oil cooler. The OEM Doghouse fanshrouds are the fresh air horns incorporated larger shrouds. They came on Type 1 VW's from 1971 on.

Greg B

Craig, everything Greg says is true. My car came originally equipped with the 36 hp style shroud and although it looks cooler and more like an original 356 I decided to swap it for the OEM VW doghouse shroud (with thermostat system and shutters) as Greg has. It doesn't look as cool as the 36 hp style but it's cooler literally as it is more efficient.

Look into a scat shroud. They seem to be the best aftermarket ones out there. I've got one. no problems you can get them powdercoated

Nothing works as well as a stock OEM German Dog house

Thanks guys. I ordered the Duracolor JCWhitney shroud. Some SCAT shroud I was looking at on some site linked me back to the JCWhitney site, so I just ordered one. It's all very confusing. It'll be here soon, so I'll let you know. FYI - the JB weld and aluminum rivets worked VERY WELL. Its just that everything that I didn't fix is letting go now!!

Greg, I noticed in your picture that you have some sort of sound deadener in your engine bay. Looks like some stuff I found at the local Home Depot for home insulation. Foil-lined plastic bubbly stuff about 1/4" thick??

Craig

Sounds like my DTM might be what you are looking for..

Would LOVE to Jake, but DTM is out of my budget, unfortunately. Got the JCWhitney shroud but the tins are backordered. $16.99 to ship the shroud and I guess I'll have to pay for the backordered shipping too! The shroud has the oil cooler housing but it vents out the side and not down and out of the bay as my existing one does. So I would have to block that off with something. Wish I had found this BEFORE I ordered from JCW... http://www.cbperformance.com/catalog.asp?ProductID=1312

Besides, one of the mounting tabs was bent. I'm shipping it back and buying the CB Doghouse. Is this the one I should get??

Thanks!

Craig, why didn't you ask?...anyway, your shroud discharges just like a stock one, you just need to get that extra tin; you can find it anywhere as it is offered by the aftermarket suppliers too.

Craig, do you have the removable vents that screw into the bottom of the shroud? If not you will need a right and left vent, thermostat and brackets. I'm looking for some of these parts myself but haven't seen them in CB or cip1. Maybe someone on this site has a stash.

Chuck; he already has an aftermarket fan shroud so it's not set up for the thermostat & shutters like the OEM ones are. Check with www.howardvw.com for the parts you need; I got them there. I doubt you'll find them new so you'll have to get them from a salvage yard and recondition them which is not that hard to do. Now that I think about it I think that Gene Berg offers everything new; try in their website as well. They also have the little rubber stops and other odds and ends that get damaged over time so that if you get used ones you can always replace those when you recondition them.