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Quick question: When installing the stock clutch fan on an SR20, does the clutch fan mounting "plate" sit flat on the water pump pulley or is there a space?

Details: I'm ditching my electric fan and switching over to a clutch fan that I bought off of someone. When I started installing it yesterday, I noticed that it wouldn't mount flush on the water pump pulley.

After removing the 4 nuts on the pulley, the fan plate would only mount partway over the center (rusty) hub piece on the pulley. IF it was able to mount all the way to be flat on the pulley, then the fan blades would be hitting the crank pulley when it spins.

So I tried mounting the clutch fan plate on top of those 4 nuts, but I noticed that there isn't much thread left to hold onto for the 4 nuts that I added.

Is this normal or do I maybe have the wrong clutch fan? It's possible the guy sold me the wrong one...

Thanks for your help.