RE: [T3] Under chassis gas heater.

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Having owned a 914 I must add my .02 cents:  Their heating system is far
better than ours and putting in an oil heater is illogical.  A 914 has 3 to
4 times the volume to heat the air and dump it in to a far smaller space!

Anyway, if putting a oil heater in our cars I would recommend installing an
oil thermostat so only when the oil is hot enough will it circulate thru the
heater core in the cabin.

I agree w/Greg, a gas heater is a much better solution after fixing the
stock system.

   Toby Erkson
   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
   '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed
   '95 VW Jetta III GL 2.0L, P-Chip, Jamex sport suspension, 2.25"MagnaFlow
exhaust
   Portland, Oregon, http://www.icbm.org/

>-----Original Message-----
>> why do a gas heater when you can use the oil cooler and channel the air
to
>> the cab. i saw it done on a 914 / 1.7. extend the oil cooler to the trunk
/
>> put a case around one side with a 12 volt fan and a tube to the vents /
in
>> the summer channel the air outside.  it saves on gas and runs off the
>> alternater...
>	If you were to use an oil cooler as a radiator, you're doing all
>kinds of mucking around with the cooling system which was designed and
>"balanced" at the factory for all kinds of conditions.
>
>	Where it's actually very cold, I would not want to be robbing my
>engine of the precious heat it needs to warm up and run efficiently.  
...

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