<VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements - Heater

[Roger Gault]

Single engine private aircraft use a can over the exhaust for cabin heat.
Gets hot real fast.  Will cook you out of the cabin at -10F outside air
temp.  I'll be going that route on my Corvair powered Avenger.

Roger

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From: <JVHRoberts at aol.com>
To: <airvair at richnet.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements


>
> Agreed, but the Beetle only used the exhaust from two cylinders.
> 911s use jacketed headers for their heat, and they do actually make some
> decent heat! This is a more comparable scenario.
> Remember, there's one HELL of a lot of thermal energy in the exhaust
stream.
> I can see SS headers in an enclosure delivering heat in a matter of 30
> seconds or less! IT all boils down to how decent a heat exchanger is used.
Clearly
> the VW Beetle units weren't.
>
> In a message dated 4/9/2007 8:18:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> airvair at richnet.net writes:
>
> Uh, have  you ever tried a VW (old) beetle? That's what they have, and
> they're being  conservative when the owners manual says that the heater
> is "minimal."  LOL
>
> No, the Corvair air heater is just fine, IF it's properly  maintained.
> It's when the car needs maintenance that it'll let you know (as  I said
> in an earlier post) in a helofa hurry and in no uncertain terms. The  key
> word here is MAINTENANCE, MAINTENANCE,  MAINTENANCE!
>
> -Mark
>
> JVHRoberts at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well, why not an exhaust heated heater? I would think there's MORE  than
> > enough thermal energy there.
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