Best cooling fan to run?

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You guys say the Mark VIII is a very good fan to get? I have had a mustang for little over a year. It's basically race ready. Very fast, nice car. I bought it for 6k from a friend's buddy. I actually was trying to sell it to just buy a stock EFI one and I can work on that from scratch. But either way, I have serious heating problems. Tempature rises very high and I loose large amounts of power so I can't really drive it around. It has factory T-tops and I would love to just cruise around in it from time to time! But the heating issue makes it impossible.

I have tried just about everything people from here have told me to try. And even people from race stores and such. I have tried 160-200 thermastats. I have tried restrictors. I have tried flex fan, 3 different types of eletric fans. One was like 300$. It was a double fan (Two smaller fans). My question is, what about this Mark VIII? Will it work better then any of the fans I can buy? none of those fans totaly covered the radiator. That mark VIII (I seen pictures of it on a mustang) fits the radiator from left to right and top to bottom! I was thinking maybe trying one last time to fix this. I could buy a Mark VIII cooling fan, new 3 core radiator (anything better to get here? 4 cores? 5?). I can hook up a 180 thermastat. Which really doesn't make a differece. Car doesn't have heat. It was stripped out. So would a restrictor be better if I don't have heat? I will also try a 80/20 mix of water to coolant and that wetter water stuff.

Does that sound like it HAS TO do the trick? I was told my walls where probablly to bored? I don't know. I'm just hoping this is fixable. Anyone have any other things I can add and try? I was thinking about getting a storm'n norm'n hood. This way, I could use the ports in the front and the scoope in the back to circulate cool air. Help remove the heat from the engine compartment. Anyone know where to buy one of those hoods online cheap and one of the mark VIII fans? Thanks!

- Kevin P
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