First off, I'd like to apologize for anything I may of ever said about mighty mites that was negative. For a long time, I believed they were a gimmick to get my $$ ... LOL ... I mean really, how could these addy bitty fans cool down the beast ... just did not compute. Again, GIGO ... I had put garbage in my brain, so garbage came out. Having been using these for about a year ... WOW ... the numbers on the Power Vision gauge set do not lie.
Okay, so back to my question.
If you look closely where the logo is, there are two of them. One is on a spacer. My question is, would removing that spacer have any ill effects like voiding the warrantee (HD has taught me to be gun shy). More importantly, I'd like to remove it for two reasons:
1) drives me crazy there are two logos ... I know ... annal ... this is the big reason
2) my A.B. Normal Engineering brain never lets anything go. So, if the fans being 3/8" from the head cools well, wouldn't them being 1/8" from the head cool it better?
There may be some negatives of moving the fans closer, like less room for the air flow to get off the heads. If the air gets trapped between the fans and the heads may actually cause less cooling. I'm not sure, but, moving the fans closer, might actually allow the fans to "bump" the heads when you hit a bump.
Another option may be to remove the spacer, sand the back if it's not chrome, then paint it flat black and mount it black out. This solves the annal issue, but, if just removing it allows for better cooling, I'm in.
So, Obi Wan Kenobi (okay, just the group), has anyone done this? What was your experience when doing it? Even though I've been using these for about a year, I'm still the newby here.
Okay, so back to my question.
If you look closely where the logo is, there are two of them. One is on a spacer. My question is, would removing that spacer have any ill effects like voiding the warrantee (HD has taught me to be gun shy). More importantly, I'd like to remove it for two reasons:
1) drives me crazy there are two logos ... I know ... annal ... this is the big reason
2) my A.B. Normal Engineering brain never lets anything go. So, if the fans being 3/8" from the head cools well, wouldn't them being 1/8" from the head cool it better?
There may be some negatives of moving the fans closer, like less room for the air flow to get off the heads. If the air gets trapped between the fans and the heads may actually cause less cooling. I'm not sure, but, moving the fans closer, might actually allow the fans to "bump" the heads when you hit a bump.
Another option may be to remove the spacer, sand the back if it's not chrome, then paint it flat black and mount it black out. This solves the annal issue, but, if just removing it allows for better cooling, I'm in.
So, Obi Wan Kenobi (okay, just the group), has anyone done this? What was your experience when doing it? Even though I've been using these for about a year, I'm still the newby here.