So tonight the temp is predicted to hit a low of -9F.
I KNOW my 190D will start at that temp, or rather I expect it will, it starts
perfectly well at 11F which is the coldest I've ever had opportunity to try it
at.
Be that as it may last weekend at the hardware store I noticed a $6 Christmas
light timer. I've always wanted to have the block heater on my car come on
automagically so I grabbed it. Tonight I've wired it up, at 4:30am tomorrow it
should click on so at 7am when I'm ready to leave my car should start as if it
were a warm June day.
Thats the idea anyway. 2.5 hours is probably way more time than is actually
needed for the engine to be reasonably warm but with my luck the cold will make
the foolish thing keep slow time and I'll actually only get 5 minutes of heat
before its time to go...
I'm not really worried about the car being able to start you know. I'm not even
interested in how keeping the engine warm will reduce startup wear (although it
probably will). No indeed I'm more interested in the fact that pre-warming the
engine should significantly cut down on the amount of driving I have to endure
before the heat comes on.
My wife is a bit miffed that we've spent $180,000 on a house so I have
somewhere to plug in my car.
-Curt
In case you didn't get it from the last line I was attempting humor here. Of
course my brand of humor does tend to be a bit dry...
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Your friend was way off base - 360/5 = 72 degrees - very do-able. Then
there are the aircraft radial engines - 5 cyl, 7 cyl (I have many
hours behind one of those), 9 cyl, etc. Now that I think about it, I
don't know of any even cylindered radial engines (excluding Wankels,
that I don't know anything about at all).
> I even had an argument with a friend about the engine. He stated that it
> could not be a 5 cylinder engine because "you can't balance an engine with a
> odd number of cylinders" I responded with "and how many cylinders does your
> lawnmower have" and "is that an even or odd number????".
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Hargrave
--
OK Don, KD5NRO
Norman, OK
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just
sit there."
Will Rogers
'90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager
