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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 troy@thomascomm.com wrote: > 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. / troy Hi Troy, Did you mean for this message to get sent to the Type III list, or just to me? Your reply came only to me; send it to 'type3@vwtype3.org' to reach the whole list. I'm sending this message to the whole list in reply, not just to you. But, in response to the gas heater topic... in places where it actually gets cold (20 degrees F, zero degrees F, and colder), I don't think that the oil cooler trick would do very well. Also, the gas heaters can pre-heat the car's interior quite effectively before you even get into the car and turn on the engine. Special timers were sold to do this for you automatically every morning. 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. I've done plenty of driving in a Squareback at temperatures between 0-20F, so I've been there. In such climates, drivers of water-cooled cars often block their radiators with cardboard so that their engines don't over-cool; adding a second oil cooler to a Type III is moving in the wrong direction. A gas heater is a brilliant solution, imho. Where temps are much milder (coastal California -- there was a "lowest daytime high on record" of 49F someplace just north of San Francisco yesterday, ha!), a stock heating system in good repair works fabulously. Regards, -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe