View Single Post
  #1  
Old July 19th 2010, 10:37
Steve C's Avatar
Steve C Steve C is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 1,757
Heat without heater boxes

Hi

I've fitted A-1 sidewinder headers to my daily/sons car, great headers with good ground clearance.

I wanted to get heat back into the car and I had various thoughts ranging from electric heaters and using an internally mounted oil cooler under the rear seat and running oil though it and blow the warm air down the heater channels, just like I did with my WBX bug only I was using water then.

I like the idea of blowing through the original heater channels so that heat can be put on the screen for demisting.

So I've made a coolant filled heat exchanger that fits around one of the J tubes and I will circulate the coolant with an electric water pump

I won a heater unit from a Nissan 180 sx on Ebay, $20.50 last of the big spenders. It looks like it will do the job.

The a heater unit from the Nissan on eBay is huge, I've managed to cut off all the bits I don't need so its small enough to fit under the tray I've made up to replace the back seat.

I'm incorporating a header tank with a radiator cap so it doesn't go nuclear if too much pressure builds up in the system.

More to follow as I get it running

Steve
Attached Images
File Type: jpg Nissan heater.jpg (29.4 KB, 42 views)
File Type: jpg heater.jpg (79.1 KB, 40 views)
File Type: jpg heater.1.jpg (84.1 KB, 37 views)
File Type: jpg heater.2.jpg (74.7 KB, 40 views)
File Type: jpg EBP-B-9002.jpg (9.6 KB, 37 views)
__________________
STI powered 1303 in the works.
Reply With Quote