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Frank Dillinger posted:Any of you have experience with a hose heater instead of a regular block heater? Or one of those immersion tank circulating deals? I want to up my heating capacity this winter so my car warms up faster. Considered an oil pan heater, but I've heard they carry a fire risk, and I park in a garage at home. Almost all newer car engines lack frost plugs because of how casting techniques have improved, which means they have contact heaters instead, and those are quite poo poo. If you want about equivalent performance with an old block heater, get a hose heater. Some companies try to push oil heaters as the best things, since it heats "the whole engine instead of just the water" and poo poo like that, but thanks to how oil transmits heat (not very well compared to water) they are also a lot less effective than a hose heater. EDIT: A swedish car magazine did this test in the latest issue.  Slangvärmare = Hose heater. Kontaktvärmare = Contact heater. Olja = oil temp down in the pan, at the tip of the dipstick. Topplock V H = cylinder head temp, left and right. This after three hours with respective heater, after the car was kept at -20 for 10 hours before plugging them in. All temps in celsius. Nidhg00670000 fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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