<VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements - Heater

[Ron]

And that aircraft heater probably wouldn't do much in a Corvair cruising 
around in the city.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Gault" <r.gault at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements - Heater


> 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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> <lonwall at corvairunderground.com>
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>>
>> 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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