<VV> Corvair heater

[Matt Nall]

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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Tell him I applaud him for "thinking outside the box"


That  was a great idea..


Matt Nall
Charleston, Oregon
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