One of the best things you can do for heat in a beetle is to block off the output from the fanshroud with 1 7/8" freeze plugs and hose clamps and install bilge pump fans on the firewall behind the backseat. These were known years ago at Barney Blowers and how they worked was to take the air inside the passenger compartment and duct it through bilge pump fans. You need to make a couple of adapters which is like a snout on a flat plate and then fasten them on either side of the firewall with a gasket (RTV) between the adapters and the firewall. It means you have to bore 2 holes in your firewall, but then you can chain a couple of those plastic heater tubes from Gene Berg together to hook the snouts to the input of your heater boxes. Aftewards you get such strong heat blowing into the beetle, you can darn near cruise naked in the winter and be toasty warm. Of course you have to wire it all up, but if you're just being cheap, you can wire a switch to a fused wire from the battery to the fans and just leave your seat propped up so you can reach under there to turn it on and off.
Other option is to install a gas heater. In my baja, I was going to install a 20lb propane tank and an infrared heater, but never got it done. As far as your engine and transmission goes, I've converted to Amsoil products 100%. I've seen enough people around here getting over 300,000 miles on their engines and the transmissions shift on the coldest sub-zero mornings as if cruising on a summer day. If you don't have a filter on your engine, then at least run synthetic transmission fluid. NQ ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Moy To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Winter modifications and necessities. What temps are u looking at and what carburetor do you have ? On Oct 28, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Kyle Davis <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, With the coming of winter and my unfortunate losing of a garage, what are the best modifications to do to my 66 for daily driving of 6 mile trips in mostly city/suburban driving to stay safe and reasonably warm? Kyle 66 beetle Dreading winter -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
