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Old 08-02-2020, 04:59 PM   #104 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
About how much did this set up cost you?
I did it over several years but I will try a best guess. The space heater for the cabin was about $30. The stick-on Katz heater on the oil pan was about $15. The marine 110V plug was $25 or $30. The tank style coolant heater I had purchased for another car but hadn’t installed. I think it was about $50. There used to be a guy selling a tank heater kit on tdiclub for about $120 IIRC but I fabbed up my own and saved some money.

The tank heater is supposed to circulate coolant through the engine through thermosiphon so it is important to mount the tank as low as possible.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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