[Spridgets] Heater Box Clips

[WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com]

If your overheating in a Spridget turning on the heater will make you  
hotter.  But if your Spridget's engine is overheating then turning the  heater 
on may not save the day but then again it might.  In my Ford Mk3  Cortina  
ownership I could see 5 degrees difference in whatever the temp  gauge was 
calibrated in (C or F) sitting in traffic on a hot day and putting the  heater 
on max.  Of course the Ford heater blower motor was more  powerful than that 
of a Spridget.
 
No-one is saying a heater is a solution to an engine overheating  problem.  
Rather that you seemed uncertain whether or not it would make a  
difference.  I'm pretty clear that it must make a difference.  Whether  or not that 
difference is big enough to prevent engine overheating (boiling  over, loss of 
coolant, vicious cycle etc) depends on how much of difference is  required.
 
My own Sprite has other modifications to ensure it doesn't overheat and  
doesn't have a heater at all.
 
Weslake-Monza 1330
 
In a message dated 08/04/2010 03:10:56 GMT Daylight Time,  
dlh2001 at comcast.net writes:

Yea,  Yea..
If your overheating in a Spridget and you think by turning on the  heater 
your going to "save the day" then
all I can say is "Good luck with  that." 

I guess my  point is that I think Skip should put his  heater back in and 
not bypass it, for a lot of other reasons
but not for  "extra engine cooling capacity". 

To put it another way...it would be a  real tradgedy if Skip goes to the 
trouble to put his heater back in
and  then (god forbid) one day this summer has an unrelated overheating 
problem and  (as a result of our discussion) 
incorrectly relies on the heater to "save  the day".

But even I must admit that I leave the water valve open to  the heater all 
the time.