can any boby tell me which fan was on a 72 V6 was it red 6 blade or
yellow 7 blade , 3x 72 V6 cars i know of have yellow fan every 70 & 71 V6 have red , help

The wifes 72 has the red 6 blade fan.

Pretty sure mine was an eight blade yellow which was thrown over the back fence in about 1977 and replaced with a thermo fan.
Thermo fan worked well in the western district of Vic. but Im yet to see how well it goes in a QLD. summer.

my 72 has its original engine and has yellow 7 blade

this isnt much help either. The V6 is the only one that doesnt say how many blades. Its from the '73 parts book.

The reason I said eight blade is, not that I remember but thats how many blades are on the engine illustration in the factory service manual.

I checked the spare V6 engine I have & it also has a red 6 blade.

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Originally posted by GTV6

this isnt much help either. The V6 is the only one that doesnt say how many blades. Its from the '73 parts book.

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I've been looking into this recently, as I have a few original (and very used) fans lying around. Going by the parts book page above, it does identify which fans were listed for the V6, just in a round-a-bout way. From 1970 the GT was the V6, so up until April 1970 they were allocated a red 6-blade fan. From April 1970 they were allocated an orange 10-blade fan, and the 165hp specials were allocated a different fan again but the parts book doesn't describe it. From a fan I have here with the same part number, the 165hp specials look to have been allocated a white 7-blade fan.

Cheers
Jamie

Don't supose this will help, but my uk spec RS is white 8 blade, but that is thermo fan not fixed.

Hi Mark,

I'm fairly sure the RS didn't come out with a thermo fan, but they are certainly a good addition. The Australian RS3100 parts supplement doesn't describe the fan fitted, but lists the part number as 72GB 8600 GA.

Cheers
Jamie