replacing the heater on my track car?

[Jamesstone]

Well as a few you know, my track car is currently being pulled apart left right & centre in the quest to make it an oversized go kart, now the dash is all out & hopefully will stay that way, one thing though is the heating unit is massive & it will only be used to de-miss the front windscreen, so question at hand, could i run an electric 12dc heater into the ducts this way removing a fair amount of weight & mess from the cockpit if so what good 12v heaters are there, preferable low power consumption because of the racing batterey but then again it will only be used when the cars running & i would of thought for short periods of time


James

 

[Jamesstone]

Maybe something like this - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/12V-2in1-Port...14&_trkparms=72:1301|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[White16valver]

Would you get enough airflow without a proper fan?

 

[Jamesstone]

Thats what i was worried about White16valver, then again its not a daily driver & wouldnt need the car to warm up in 2 minutes so guess it could be left running for 10 mins

 

[JonniP]

i had a similar one to that and useless isnt a good enough word to describe it!

 

[Jamesstone]

Are crap lol.... got any ideas as to what else could be used?


James

 

[Fred@BTM]

rally design and tweeks do a range on in car 12V heaters

 

[Jamesstone]

Had a look on both sites fred & cant see anything like that on either :S

 

[Jamesstone]

So even a 200w one would not really be any good then? seen a few on the bay, would make life so much easyer to just wack one of those in

 

[Hutchie]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CITROEN-SAXO-HEATER-FAN-MOTOR-VTS-VTR-PEUGEOT-106-GTI_W0QQitemZ380082254875QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item380082254875&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1299%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

blowing through this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2000-Peugeot-...14&_trkparms=72:1299|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[Fred@BTM]

you need the catalogues mate

 

[DrR]

I could have dreamt this, but didn't someone on here use a Escort MK1 heater?

 

[Jamesstone]

Thinking about... think burp did, will have a flick through his thread!


Nice find hutchie, something like that could work a treat, just wonder how you would wire that pug heater up, not as if its just positive & negative..

 

[Hutchie]

Thinking about... think burp did, will have a flick through his thread!


Nice find hutchie, something like that could work a treat, just wonder how you would wire that pug heater up, not as if its just positive & negative..

ill get pics of the custom one on the clio rally car very small

 

[Jamesstone]

ill get pics of the custom one on the clio rally car very small

That would be ace mate

 

[ditz]

jog the lot on, and fit a heated front screen (if you can find one)

 

[Jamesstone]

Thinking about it.. it could do with a new window so not a bad idea ditz.. but i reckon that would cost into the £400ish mark? gotta do this for £30-£40, i am on a budget with this lol