There's a distinct possibility that we may actually have a reason for our position around here. It's not like some of us haven't owned, driven and modified these cars since before you were born.
I'll tell you flat out, while your electrics may provide marginal cooling up there in Syracuse for street use, they aren't up to spec. Go spend a day over at Watkins Glen, you'll learn how weak your cooling system is. You'll find yourself spending about 1/2 of your precious track time on pit road waiting for your temp gauge to come down.
If you want
real cooling, that is up to the task under any driving conditions, you're going to have to run mechanical fans. I have yet to find
one electric fan that is up to the task of cooling a Supra for anything other than grocery getter use.
Have I run and installed electric fans? Yes. Do they do the job? Sometimes. But once you start seriously pushing the car, you're going to find that your cooling is seriously lacking. I will
never run electric fans on anything but a dedicated drag car ever again.
My road course car? Good old 100% mechanical Toyota fans. And I can run session after session at Road Atlanta, without breaks in the middle of August when it's 100 out and I have zero heat problems. The cars around me with electrics? Nope, they are in the pits dealing with a heat soaked motor.
The entire point of modifying a car is to make things
better. Electric fans are not superior to the stock setup in any way, except for the cosmetics. When you start trading function for looks, you're fucking up in my book.
Just my (educated) $.02, your mileage may vary. Take it for what it is worth.
I posted just about the same thing two years ago:
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?p=231673#post231673
You should probably read that two year thread over, it beats this issue to death and nothing has changed in electric fan tech over the last couple of years.
