REFLECTOR: Rear Seat Heat

[Ron Brown]

Hi Ken,

One option that someone had implemented was to open up the plenum which the oil cooler lines run through and pick up that heat and allow it to blow into the rear cabin. This would require that the vernertherm close off and force oil through he cooler and the lines during the winter.  If the cooling air to the engine isn't reduced during the winter flying, then the oil won't get hot enough to do much cabin heating.  This could be done by restricting the NACA scoops by reducing the inlet area.

I am planning to install outlet scoops just in front of the firewall to gain some oil cooling from the oil lines for the summer months.  If you calculate the surface area of the two 10' lines going through the plenum, it is almost as much as the surface area of the oil cooler.

Ronnie  


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KMis178813 at aol.com 
  To: reflector at tvbf.org 
  Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:17 PM
  Subject: REFLECTOR: Rear Seat Heat


  To All
     Does anyone have some sort of rear cabin heat working with a air cooled engine?

                    Ken Mishler





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