

| Subject: | Back on heating |
| Date: | 3 Feb 95 16:47 |
Hi all,
You may remember the water heater box idea a few weeks ago.
Well I didn't get a J-pipe from the Santa Pod meet coz the SOB at the
J-pipe stall wouldn't sell me just one! I had to buy two, so I gave
him the bird.
Another idea I've thought of though is this:
When I start my engine from cold the heater boxes are still cold (well
barely hot anyway) after 5 minutes. However the heat exhausting from
the tinware at the bottom is damn hot after five minutes. So check out
my latest ASCII design:-
cool air
/ \
/ _________ \__
| | | | ---->
| |____|____| <----- Cylinders (don't laugh cos they're square)
| ---->
\____________ ----> Hot engine cooling air
Ok so that's the stock setup now suppose I put a small radiator on the
hot air flow ala:
cool air
/ \
/ _________ \__ water in
| | | | __/
| |____|____| | |
| ---> | | ---> hot engine cooling air
\____________ |__|
\ hot? water out
Two pipes upto the front with a radiator/fan setup and a water pump to
pump it round.
You could even have a radiator on both sides of the engine to collect
from both hot air outlets. I guess they shouldn't actually be called
"radiators" though more like "heat exchangers".
So any comments??
Lee
'64 Samba
l.s.griffiths@physics.salford.ac.uk
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