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Originally Posted by RedDevil
What about an engine air inlet heater?
That should help idling and running at low throttle when the engine is still cold. |
These are mine.
I put the intake heaters on for 20 seconds, then run both the glow plugs and the intake heaters together for 10 seconds, release both the switches and crank the engine, it fires right up.
This is my backup for when I cant plug in a block heater.
After about 30 seconds of power they look like this:
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1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
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