Heat without heater boxes

[Steve C]

Hi

I've fitted A-1 sidewinder headers to my daily/sons car, great headers with good ground clearance.

I wanted to get heat back into the car and I had various thoughts ranging from electric heaters and using an internally mounted oil cooler under the rear seat and running oil though it and blow the warm air down the heater channels, just like I did with my WBX bug only I was using water then.

I like the idea of blowing through the original heater channels so that heat can be put on the screen for demisting.

So I've made a coolant filled heat exchanger that fits around one of the J tubes and I will circulate the coolant with an electric water pump

I won a heater unit from a Nissan 180 sx on Ebay, $20.50 last of the big spenders. It looks like it will do the job.

The a heater unit from the Nissan on eBay is huge, I've managed to cut off all the bits I don't need so its small enough to fit under the tray I've made up to replace the back seat.

I'm incorporating a header tank with a radiator cap so it doesn't go nuclear if too much pressure builds up in the system.

More to follow as I get it running

Steve