[Vwdiesel] Too cold

[lbaird119 at aol.com]

  Machinist I had one time, was laughing at the fogged up Type 1 that went by the shop one day.  Local, foreign parts house owner had recently told me that if you seal everything up good, they had GOOD heat. Scot then proceeded to say "yeah, if you build a fire!"  I said Dave also claimed that a bus had ok heat and was really comfy if you hung a blanket across, behind the front seats.  Scott then added, a bus WOULD indeed have good heat if you built TWO fires!  One in front and one in back!
  My work van got uncomfortable once it hit the 20's so I used that advice and would staple a pad wrapper (sheet of plastic) behind the front seat area.  Made a HUGE difference between being cold and fairly comfy.  (high performance 350 engine).
   Loren



-----Original Message-----
From: James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net>
To: lbaird119 <lbaird119 at aol.com>; vwdiesel <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 3:14 pm
Subject: RE: [Vwdiesel] Too cold


Heck, I drove a 73 bus all winter one year when I was much younger.  Now
hat was a skimobile.  There was enough heat just off the manifolds for up
o -20C.  After that, if you pulled onto the highway and got up to speed,
he heat loss out the front was so impressively fast, you could feel a
reeze generated by the convection.  Buddy and I used to laugh about the
hermal black hole it had on the front that operated at highway speed.  In
he city, I bet it was warmer than most cars, even without the aux heater.
james