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Yeah.. make sure you have a good fan.
If you run the numbers on the belts you will find the stock size belt has a fairly low hp capacity. I suspect that at some point it maxes out and starts slipping. The serpentine belt is capable of carrying more hp. On this I suspect that you could over speed the fan fairly easily on hot rod. Fan would be likely to come apart.
Of course this is just conjecture on my part and I have no empirical data to back it up, only the engineering data available about the belts, nothing about the hp requirements of the fan.
If you run the numbers on the belts you will find the stock size belt has a fairly low hp capacity. I suspect that at some point it maxes out and starts slipping. The serpentine belt is capable of carrying more hp. On this I suspect that you could over speed the fan fairly easily on hot rod. Fan would be likely to come apart.
Of course this is just conjecture on my part and I have no empirical data to back it up, only the engineering data available about the belts, nothing about the hp requirements of the fan.