For those of you who thought you had seen everything..........

September 14, 2014, 01:29:04 PM

I will now attempt to finalize and complete your portfolio.

once upon a time a couple years ago my heater core blew. I was not in the mood nor willing to dissect the dash of a fully electronic cluster and all the other special feature items in the 20ths dash.
Fast forward and I did a heater core mod by entering the fire wall and it works great....... link here> http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?34998-AND-NOW!!!!-It-s-a-1hour-or-less-heater-core&daysprune=100

so as I travel through northern ohio doing some TMobile sites, I have no heat and stop at a truck stop and find a 12v heater.
I use it, it works ok, I take off down the road and sure enough in my moving car I have a heater catching on fire,, the fuse did not blow either,, I got lucky.

I froze my ass off heading back home during this oct 2012 cold spell.

I hatch an idea in my shivering mind heading down to home.

I stop at lowes and buy this corrugated natural gas line 1/2'' x 25' long.

I start at the passanger exhaust header and one loop at a time I wrap this stainless steel corrugated line around the exhaust header, down across the "y" part of the exhaust and back up the driver side exhaust header, then the remaining slack dresses over to the passanger side over to the beginning of this tubing.
I think all told there were about 35 or so individual wraps of this stuff around my exhaust system.

I disconnect my smog pump tubing and cap off the smog pipes coming from the heads so its not loud.

I allow my smog input to suck air in using its own turbine up front.
I connect one end of my flex tubing to the smog output.
I connect the other end of my line to my heater core input
I leave the other side of the heater core open to the engine bay.

the smog suck in outside air, pushes it through the flex line around all the stuff that gets hot, then dumps it all inside my heater core, then out the other end of the heater core.

presto!, I have about 98deg deg coming out of my vents.
I had it like this all the winter of 2012 into 2013,,, the problem was that the car moving forward cooled off the tubing so essentially I could only achieve about 75deg coming out of my vents. I wrapped the Y pipe with some sheet metal down forward of the transmission pan and then was able to get a steady 80deg from the vents while moving. a heater core change needed done,, but I did it the way I did per the above link.

so this past week I need to work on the transmission filter change and some other things........ and what do you know, I cant get my pan off till I rip out all that garbage that kept me warm a whole winter. My chickens came home to roost! I knew it would be worse of a bitch to take out then to put in,, and it was!!!

anyway,,, now you have seen it all.

standing by for some ball busting im sure :)

for the record, I had a tweeting noise coming out the other side of the heater core,, noise made it inside the car to! kinda funny