Right now I have an electric fan mounted to my radiator...(69 350). No shroud and the fan is mounted to the engine side of the radiator in the direction of pulling air. On really hot days, it runs hot...and causes a bit of a vapor lock once I turn the car off and try to restart. (I am also at 6,000 ft elevation). My thought is to add a shroud, move the fan to the front of the radiator and blow air across the radiator. And add a flex fan. Any thoughts or suggestions on a GM fan with a clutch? Or would my plan probably help the cooling issue?

You need a shroud across the whole radiator surface. The fan you have mounted in the center is only cooling in the middle. They make dual fan setups ( dual spal 11" fans ) that cover the radiator. This is if you want electric fans. They are costly though, like $350.00.

They say the factory is the best setup. Usually people use electric fans for clearance problems or just for the look. I have the spal 11" fans on a blower motor and it cools pretty good. I wish I had bought the dual 12" fans.

Right now I have an electric fan mounted to my radiator...(69 350). No shroud and the fan is mounted to the engine side of the radiator in the direction of pulling air. On really hot days, it runs hot...and causes a bit of a vapor lock once I turn the car off and try to restart. (I am also at 6,000 ft elevation). My thought is to add a shroud, move the fan to the front of the radiator and blow air across the radiator. And add a flex fan. Any thoughts or suggestions on a GM fan with a clutch? Or would my plan probably help the cooling issue?

I don't think you could just move the fan to the front of the radiator. Think about it. Before it was pulling air through the radiator. By flipping it to the other side it would be working against your flex fan. Trying to pull air from the engine bay. Unless you mount the elec. fan motor next to the radiator. So it would look somehting like this in order, elec. fan/ fan motor/ radiator/ shroud/ flex fan. If you wanted to do as you suggest, you need a pusher fan in front. They do make those. Why don't you just add an elec. fan shroud and see if that helps? They sell those through Summit.

I bought a Black Magic fan at a auto store in Vegas. Comes with it's own shroud that covers the radiator and adjustable thermostat. I've never had an issue with temps being too hot.

Purpose behind going electric is that it saves wear on the motor and coughs up a few more ponies to the rear wheels. Putting a flex fan on would just diminish any ponies that you had reclaimed with the electric fan.

As mentioned above^.The Flexalite black magic extreme is fully shrouded,comes with an adjustable controller and the install kit is painless.

ps-hey Mike.my dual 12" spals are such glorius overkill,I split them up with 2 controllers and 2 different on/off times and never exceed 190*f with a 180* bypass t-sat.:cool:.pun intended.

......move the fan to the front of the radiator and blow air across the radiator. And add a flex fan.

Two fans is overkill, and probably wouldn't work any better than a stock fan and shroud. my stock shroud and cheapo flex fan cools fine sitting in traffic on a hot day. ran it for a while without a shroud and i'd come to a stop and immediately watch the temp gauge start climbing. added a stock shroud, problem solved. your lack of shroud is all that's hurting you. an electric fan is certainly nice, but not a necessity for adequate cooling.

With the stock fan would I have to install a spacer to make sure the fan is 1/2 into the shroud? Fan clutch? How was stock set up? right now all I have is the pulley...

i have a 69 camaro 350, stock rad. and installed a 16 in. electric fan, works fine but makes a whine when the fan comes on. took the fan off and tested and no whine. there is no rubbing on rad. or fan shield. any help?

why do people always fall for the "it frees up a few more HP" myth when talking about electric fans. It takes approximately 3HP worth of mechanical energy to generate enough power to run a 1 HP electric motor due to the effeciency of a generator. It takes the same HP to suck the same amount of air past fan blades whether the fan blades are driven by an electric motor or the engine off the water pump. The only time you "free up some HP" is when the electric motor is turned off, thats why they are used in 1/4 mile cars, you can turn the fan off at staging, turn it back on on the return road.