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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Toby Erkson wrote: > Well, on Saturday, after picking up a friend at the Portland International > Airport I decided to ram my Porsche into the stone wall just beyond the > parking toll booths. Let me tell you, seat belts and crush zones work. We > weren't even scratched or whiplashed. In fact, from the windshield back > you would have never know the car was totaled! Ouch. I'm not even going to ask how THAT happened!! (speaking of crumple zones, my truck can atest to that....80 rabbit p/up..) > The thing is I would rather set it up in such a way that all the cabin > heat doesn't just dump on me but rather through the stock heater ducts. > This way *real* heat can go to the back, the front feet and the front > defroster ducts. Any one have any ideas on doing this? The dimensions: Warning! Warning! At least, i know this is true with the larger heaters used in the buses.. You DO NOT want the heat running directly out of the gas heater hitting you windhield! (ie: out the defroster ducts!) Why? Think of a cold windshield, and HOT air...and think CRACK...The suddent blast of hot air has taught a fewpeople that the convenience of nice hot defrosters is not worth the glass replacement...:/ > -- David Raistrick '69 Westy-Itchigo keen@tiora.net '66 Hardtop Westy in Augusta Ga Mike West's Pushing Back the Darkness Series: http://www.tiora.net/~keen/west/darkness.html The Turning 40 Nostalgic VW Service Tour, and Search for the Beginning of Wind http://www.tiora.net/~keen/charlie/charlie.html