It is sooooooo coooooold at the moment.
I want to fit a heater to my open, windscreenless locost to pump out hot air round my toes. I am a miserable git and only want to spend a tiny amount of money and also have concerns about the size of a heating unit (it needs to sit in the engine bay or up under the scuttle.
I considered a round smiths heater from an Austin A35 or early landrover. Can anyone suggest any easy, cheap, small alternatives?

Cheers
Dave

Classic mini heater ? but mind the hot water on your feet if a pipe bursts
Ask HiCost on here
Jacko

[Edited on 16/1/12 by jacko]

In small aeroplanes they use heat from the exhaust.


cockpit heater

Cheers,
Paul G

Am i right in thinking VW beetles use exhaust heat for there heaters ?

Yep, exhaust heat for VW's.

Pc radiator and one of them 12v cheapo ebay electric superchargers

And make one of these.

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqF,!lsE2FV86FLwBNup9Pw7BQ~~_12.JPG

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Am i right in thinking VW beetles use exhaust heat for there heaters ?

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Simple hole or vent either through the lower steel bulkead, or higher up through the bulkhead and down under the dash or from the transmission tunnel. Theres loads of hot air in the engine bay desperate to get out!

Nice ideas -
I like the look of the exhaust heated system - my parents had a beetle which had the heating on permanently in the passenger side footwell - hot enough to take the skin off your ankles! I'll get fabricating.
Dave

Perhaps taking a different slant on this

http://www.gerbings.co.uk/gerbings_heated_socks.html

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Originally posted by 907
In small aeroplanes they use heat from the exhaust.


cockpit heater

Cheers,
Paul G

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exhaust heat take off

Warm air for take off

Thats a brilliant idea - why don't all cars do this? You would have hot air in seconds rather than wait for the whole block to heat up!

Standard practice in aircooled cars, get yourself a 2cv lol

im with the idea of a closeable hole in the bulkhead. lots of hot air there, coming through at speed and a sinple hole, that you could regulate the flow through would be easy to do in about half an hour.

paul

The "hole in the tunnel" is flawed slightley, unless you fit a sliding louvre door, as in the summer, i do not want all that heat in the cockpit!!

Also, what about a fire, that would also enter while driving ?

As for Hicosts accident, that was a hot water in the cockpit, and very very nearly cost him his life

Steve

We've got a section high up on the bulkhead cut out that we've put a fine mesh over and our under dash is carpet type material.. Under normal driving conditions you get a warm breeze through that in fine weather you don't really notice which obviousley increases if the radiator fan comes on. But on Colder evenings etc it seems to make a present difference and helps keep the chill off, all dead simple and very minimum cost.

Tis lovely with he Duratec but you did sometimes get a cloud of oil smoke coming through the dash when the old pinto was breathing heavy tho lol

Point taken about the risk of fire, but I'd rather take that chance than the boiling water and when the radiator fan does come on it quickly shifts the heat and helps that out.

[Edited on 17/1/12 by MkIndy7]