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Old 10-22-2012, 12:54 AM   #273 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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Originally Posted by brucepick View Post
Have been researching how to do a coolant heater on the Civic. If successful I'll write it up. Quite a few approaches do not work on this car. I believe I'll be able to use a "tank type" convection flow heater, with coolant entering heater from the lower rad hose via a T adapter (by Kat's) and exiting towards the hot side heater hose, again via a T adapter. Heater by ZeroStart has a backflow check valve. As I say, full details later if this is successful.
Someone posted a thread on here about a stock Honda coolant heater. Search function should reveal it. It was for the fifth gen, but someone else posted about their first gen Insight. If both those cars had one as an option, I gotta think the sixth gen Civic has one too.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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