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If you can get electricity to it, then a system like a Tanis TAS75-01 works great. It fits all our engines (A-65 through O-200) and is safe to leave plugged in for a whole week if needed. At $400 or so, it is a bit of an investment. I have it on my engine and will be plugging it into a Thermo Cube. Warning: The below are just personal opinions and should be taken with a grain of salt and a whole lot of additional research. Please correct me if you have scientific research showing otherwise. I personally would shy away from relying on oil dipstick heaters as they only heat the sump oil which will just quickly cool and congeal as it runs through the cold cylinders and heads... so not so much benefit there. Remember, the primary goal is to minimize startup engine wear, not just make the engine start easier. Heated blowers are good if you are patient and don't try to heat the engine quickly. There is a lot of metal there to warm up; give it time, and try to warm it evenly. Some of those blowers generate a really high heat. If you jam it all right up to the front cylinders, then you are shock heating your engine and that's not so good (just like you don't want to shock cool the engine on descent). It isn't as serious (as the cylinder expands rather than contracts), but still... I can't see it being good for it. Back in Minnesota, our training school heated their engines with blowers (ones that didn't have a Tanis heater) for 30 minutes or more before starting the engine. - Jason ________________________________ From: billjhs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] Pre heating ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Hello to all, What does everyone think about preheating the engines in our coupes??? Winter is almost here in the northeast and my poor coupe is outside tied down. Bill N2367H ======================================================================== ====== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
