If your overheating in a Spridget turning on the heater will make you
hotter. But if your Spridget's engine is overheating then turning the heater
on may not save the day but then again it might. In my Ford Mk3 Cortina
ownership I could see 5 degrees difference in whatever the temp gauge was
calibrated in (C or F) sitting in traffic on a hot day and putting the heater
on max. Of course the Ford heater blower motor was more powerful than that
of a Spridget.
No-one is saying a heater is a solution to an engine overheating problem.
Rather that you seemed uncertain whether or not it would make a
difference. I'm pretty clear that it must make a difference. Whether or not
that
difference is big enough to prevent engine overheating (boiling over, loss of
coolant, vicious cycle etc) depends on how much of difference is required.
My own Sprite has other modifications to ensure it doesn't overheat and
doesn't have a heater at all.
Weslake-Monza 1330
In a message dated 08/04/2010 03:10:56 GMT Daylight Time,
dlh2001@comcast.net writes:
Yea, Yea..
If your overheating in a Spridget and you think by turning on the heater
your going to "save the day" then
all I can say is "Good luck with that."
I guess my point is that I think Skip should put his heater back in and
not bypass it, for a lot of other reasons
but not for "extra engine cooling capacity".
To put it another way...it would be a real tradgedy if Skip goes to the
trouble to put his heater back in
and then (god forbid) one day this summer has an unrelated overheating
problem and (as a result of our discussion)
incorrectly relies on the heater to "save the day".
But even I must admit that I leave the water valve open to the heater all
the time.
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