2 birds with one stone??, heat and oil line routing in one....hmmm Options

[East coaster]

I'm still plotting a heat scheme. I really want to have heat/defrosters in my 3.6 conversion. I've entertained the idea of a gas heater, which would probably work fine. I've also considered trying to get something to work off of the oil cooler. Now, I was just looking at the Elephant racing finned oil lines and thought hey, maybe I could route finned oil lines through the old heater passages (solves oil line routing to front cooler) and still fan force air through the passages and derive heat from the finned lines. I would have to come up with a way to port the lines into the ducts and out while still keeping the ducts semi-sealed. This doesn't seem insurmountable.

For all you thermodynamists out there, would this work for heat??

[Dunk]

Hey Buddy...

Sort of BTDT..... I have a 930 cooler up front and headers on a 3.0. I figured I'd draw heat from the cooler shroud (front trunk) on cold days after the cooler kicked in. No luck.

Tried a block plate (removing the engine OC) - still nothing. Then - tried it with/without the Mocal inline T'stadt.... Nada...

Well - spring time came - I gave up on heat altogether. It makes sense - you are running full length lines up to the cooler (looses temp over the run length), so the oil cooler doesn't do anything at all, except become part of the circulation - IF the T'stadt even opens.

On anything below 50 degrees - the oil never heated enough to do anything on the interior for heat - except make me feel good about my crappy design... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)