- 1. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Attias <cattias@cats.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:11:38 -0700
- To summarize so far: *High flow fan (Costello, I believe) from Seven Enterprises. I've tried this in a GT, and it does improve things some--lighter, bigger squirrel-cage vanes, less well ballanced. *
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- 2. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:35:22 -0400
- Thanks to all for the excellent suggestions. I do get heat, wafting out the top, so I'm going to replace the fan first, and work from there. I'll check the core too. Squirrel breath, eh? Actually I j
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00610.html (7,680 bytes)
- 3. Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: "Simon Matthews" <simon_atwork@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:35:22 PDT
- Pre-'75 cars will not come up to temperature in cold weather, whatever the thermostat -- remember the oil cooler is also providing engine cooling and some water goes past the thermostat. I know this
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00611.html (8,067 bytes)
- 4. RE: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Dan Pockrus <dpockrus@efficient.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:47:53 -0500
- What do they do when someone calls saying that a warning light keeps coming on for some reason? Tell them to remove the bulb? Dan Pockrus '74B stripped for paint
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00612.html (7,980 bytes)
- 5. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:11:03 -0500
- Hi Simon, I'm afraid you've drawn the wrong conclusion from your expreience with the '74 B. I have a '69 B that comes up to temp and puts out plenty of heat in sub-freezing weather. You probably had
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00618.html (8,676 bytes)
- 6. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:41:14 -0700
- A warning from experience: DO NOT disassemble the lower heater box rubber elbows and tubes merely out of curiosity. They are a massive and painful project to put back together; some would say impossi
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00625.html (8,261 bytes)
- 7. decent heat (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 19:34:37 -0400
- There are a couple of "fixes" for the MGB heater. The 7 Enterprises fan may help, I have gotten mixed reviews, some say only more noise, others love it. My 1st fix was to seal about 50 small air leak
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00634.html (9,196 bytes)
- 8. Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: "James H. Nazarian" <microdoc@apk.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:55:39 -0400
- Hello All (Northerner for Howdy Y'all), Another more elegant and easily adjustable way of blocking the radiator without use of cardboard, is to purchase a black nylon mesh sunscreen shade - the kind
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00649.html (9,434 bytes)
- 9. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:43:08 -0500
- The first time I saw one of those "windoshade" radiator accessories was , maybe not too concidentally, on a late '50's Volvo sedan, one of those that looked like a small white '40 Ford. It, too, had
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00656.html (8,170 bytes)
- 10. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:34:30 EDT
- << on a late '50's Volvo sedan >> Yep. Had one!! Worked PERFECT!!
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00661.html (8,027 bytes)
- 11. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:52:29 -0500
- The engine was a 4-banger with twin sidedrafts. It had a floorshift 4-speed and was a spirited little car. I seem to remember that they had some success rallying those cars. What was the lineage of t
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00662.html (8,508 bytes)
- 12. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:09:52 -0500
- Volvo 544 Sedan (or saloon); Werner Gudzus successfully raced one in Canada in the 60's; did so well he earned a sponsored ride in a Porsche RS-60 racer. Typical Volvo OHV 4-cyl, precursor of the B-1
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00663.html (9,156 bytes)
- 13. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:39:42 -0700
- If you'd like one, you may recall that I have a B16B up in my garage. Free to anyone who wants to come and get it. (It came in my 52TD). Bud Krueger 52TD 77MGB
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00668.html (8,926 bytes)
- 14. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: MGRagtop@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 23:51:45 EDT
- Wait till you experience the "half-dead hamster breathing through a straw" You must have got that from Peter Egan of Road & Track fame... I remember reading an article he wrote about 15 years ago abo
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00681.html (9,093 bytes)
- 15. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:30:39 EDT
- << B16B up in my garage >> And I'll just bet, Bub, that if you had the REST of the car, thats what you'd be driving this winter !!!<G> (SU's and all !!<G>). Cheers.......... Ed
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00691.html (8,301 bytes)
- 16. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:27:18 -0700
- No siree, Ed. That's why I have the Parrish hardtop for the 77B and why I all of those parts from you to get the heating system plumbed up the way it's supposed to be. Would you believe that I'm look
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00693.html (8,421 bytes)
- 17. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:17:42 EDT
- << Would you believe that I'm looking for a way to slow down the heater blower? Roll down the windows???
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00694.html (7,941 bytes)
- 18. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:00:03 -0500
- Hi Bud, I had forgotten about that engine. Bet you'll get rid of it now. CR
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00696.html (8,081 bytes)
- 19. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:07:48 -0500
- Aw, Ida no. I drove my '70 B Rd year 'round when I lived in the high desert of the El Paso, TX area. Winter temperatures were commonly in the low teens at night and early morning. Gotta admit I wore
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00697.html (8,717 bytes)
- 20. Re: Decent Heat (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:55:32 +0100
- They were an aftermarket accessory here in the UK in the '50s, at least, as I remember an uncle having one. It just screened off the radiator, though. The UK MGOC sell grill muffs for various models
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00722.html (8,904 bytes)
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