<VV> Corvair heater

[Bob Gilbert]

Interesting..might be good way to provide interior heat and window
defrosting for my UltraVan - and even preheated water in the hot water tank!
Now how cool (?) would that be! :-)
Regards,
Bob
68 UltraVan
66 Corsa 180 convertible


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Sent: December-29-11 8:50 AM
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Subject: <VV> Corvair heater

A friend of mine actually made a hot water heater for his Corvair. He used
late smog exhaust manifolds with the vertical tubes removed and plugged. He
drilled and tapped the front end of the manifolds for a pipe thread. He put
an electric water pump and reservoir in the engine compartment to supply
water thru steel tubes down thru the manifolds and then up front to a big
oil cooler used as a heat exchanger. The system actually worked for a while
until the water got so hot in the manifolds that it turned to steam thereby
vapor locking the whole system! Oh well, you never know until you try what
will work. Maybe a special manifold with more water capacity would not have
boiled the water so soon. The small port thru the stock manifold just didn't
flow enough water to keep the system functioning. At least there were no oil
fumes in the heater! 
Clark Hartzel
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