<VV> CO sensor

[Ron]

I'm currently running three Corvairs and run them all winter when it gets 
well below freezing.  I like the hot air heaters and wouldn't go without 
them.  I do plan to install a gas heater along with the stock air heater in 
my '61 wagon when I get it going but the stock heaters have been very 
trouble free and safe and I see no reason to screw them up and freeze.

RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mel Francis" <mfrancis at wi.rr.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Cc: <ScottyGrover at aol.com>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> CO sensor


> Guys, since this thread about CO sensors has gotten to the point that it 
> has
> a 'no humor' badge,
> let me really introduce a serious angle to this topic.
>
> Back in the mid-'70s, I gave up driving Corvairs for one main reason; that
> being the direct-air heating system.
> At the time, I owned several performance models, even including a Yenko
> Stinger, the pride of my fleet,
> but I wound up using a terminally-rusty Fitch Sprint for winter driving, 
> and
> it had all the usual contaminated-air
> problems, that showed up only during the depths of extened heater use. Bad
> enough, that I was slowly poisoning
> myself, running the heater during the winter, but I had a wife and small
> child to consider also, so I went out and
> bought a brand-new water-cooled V8 Monza and went on with my life.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I have always loved the basic rear-drive setup of the
> Corvair, but if GM were to build the car today,
> by law, they wouldn't be allowed to hook the engine-cooling exhaust air to
> the passenger compartment!
> It is simply common sense and there's no getting around it, with today's
> consumer protection laws!
>
> Having recently re-entered the hobby and planning on using my present
> Corvair during the summer only,
> I have completely disconnected the three direct-air flex-tubes from the
> engine to the passenger compartment.
> This will assure that I will never again be faced with driving down a 
> road,
> inhaling carbon monoxide, or battery fumes,
> or oil fumes, or raw fuel fumes from some part of a seeping fuel system.
> Even the best-maintained Corvairs, can occasionally be found to be pushing
> forward one of these four contaminants,
> always when you least expect it.
>
> I would suggest that many other Corvair enthusiasts, who drive mainly 
> during
> the summer, could easily do the same,
> since it doesn't really alter the car in a way that affects the value. 
> These
> flex tubes can always be replaced for a full,
> 100-point restoration car, but in the meantime, you have a much more
> pleasant, up-to-date driving experience.
> With a bit of clever work, you could even add a small electric air heater
> under the dash,
> for the occasional windshield defogging duty.
>
> CO free, here in Wisconsin-
>
> Mel Francis
> 65 Monza Convertible
> 77 Monza 2+2
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <ScottyGrover at aol.com>
> To: <ricknorris at suddenlink.net>; <tibbitts at qx.net>; <>;
> <dave.thompson at verizon.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> CO sensor
>
>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/16/2008 3:28:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>> ricknorris at suddenlink.net writes:
>>
>> Oh sure,  your pet shop had them but mine only had some chickens, a crow
>> and
>> a sale on  parakeets and them English birds called Budgies! Looked 
>> exactly
>> like parakeets  to me..
>>
>>
>>
>> Those birds called Budgies (short for budgerigars) grow wild in 
>> Australia,
>> are imported to both the U.K. and the U.S.A. They are slightly similar in
>> appearance to the (now extinct) Carolina Parakeet.
>>
>> Scotty from Hollyweird (former Budgie breeder)
>>
>>
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