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  • #235821
    crash55
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    @crash55

    so as you know I took some time off of my project. one idea I came up with for a defroster with heat was a 12 volt hair drier for rv people & connect it to the vent to the windshield. the move the switches to the dash. what do you guys think ?

    #265275
    Royal
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    @royal

    I think you will be very disappointed with how well they work. Suppose you hook it up to and it draws 20 amps. Then it would be producing 20×12 or 240 watts of heat. This would be approx 1/7th of the heat of your home hair dryer. They kinda work, a little bit. Very little.

    #265276
    billnparts
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    @billnparts

    Take one of these and toss it on top of the dash when you need it.

    http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=heater

    Bill Ascheman
    Fiberfab Ford
    Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
    Autocross & Hillclimb
    "Drive Happy"

    #265277
    crash55
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    @crash55

    I quess more research will have to be done

    #265278
    Paul Mossberg
    Keymaster

    @pmossberg

    I just have a bower to circulate air to the defroster vents.
    No added heating element.

    Something similar to this: http://www.westmarine.com/buy/rule-industries–waterproof-in-line-blowers–P012_362_001_002

    Paul Mossberg
    Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
    2005 Intermeccanica Roadster

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    #265279
    crash55
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    @crash55

    I want heat for the defrost. I plan to drive mine from the 1st salt washing rain in the spring till the 1st snow and be comfortable

    #265280
    John Simion
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    @johnsimion

    The builder of my VW-based car had tried to mate a hair-dryer hose to the VW heater hoses from the engine and thence to the defroster unit.  When I got it, the defroster motor would run but I couldn’t tell any heat at all was coming out … and he didn’t install side curtains, either.  I had to wonder, “What was he thinking?”  Heck, I had a stock 71 Karmann Ghia in college and it had a “real” VW defroster with “real” hoses and actual windows that closed, and I remember always taking an ice scraper along to scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windshield.  So if your TDr is VW-based, I wouldn’t place a lot of hope in the effectiveness of your defroster plans.

    Now that I am living in Vegas and rebuilding my TDr, I took out the VW heater and defroster altogether and like the original builder, I’m skipping the side curtains, too.  This is going to be strictly a fair-weather vehicle but that pretty much accounts for 300 days a year here anyway.  Hence the defroster motor is available if you want to try.  Good luck making it effective!

    johnsimion2015-08-02 15:30:33

    #265281
    Paul Mossberg
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    @pmossberg

    Crash…is your TDr VW based? If yes, are the heat exchangers hooked up?

    I’ve driven my TDr well into the winter. I can’t open up the VW heat all the way. It gets too hot.

    But I’m trying to understand what you are really looking for.

    You started the thread asking about a defroster. And it seems to have segued into heat in general.

    When operating properly, the VW heat worked for a Beetle. The defrosters, worked well enough to keep the windshield fog free, but would not melt ice on the outside.

    Our passenger compartments are about half the size of a Beetle. And we’re sitting right on top of the heat ducts.

    It’s been my experience that the VW heat works fine for a TDr

    Paul Mossberg
    Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
    2005 Intermeccanica Roadster

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    #265282
    crash55
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    @crash55

    yea its a vw pan. the heat should not be a problem. but the defrost is only a hole with no fan or ductwork

    #265283
    Paul Mossberg
    Keymaster

    @pmossberg

    I’m gonna stick with my original story. 😉

    I’ve been okay with no additional heating element in the defroster duct work.

    Paul Mossberg
    Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
    2005 Intermeccanica Roadster

    If you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)

    #265284
    BEBOP
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    @bebop

    Well, not many foggy bebop’n days out here but back in Fort Worth I used ‘Rain-X’ on the outside of the windshield and wiped and buffed ‘Never-Fog’ on the inside of the glass. I seldom went bebop’n on rainy days and if I needed more than that I just kept a cotton towel in the passenger door pocket for excessively foggy days.  YES, I had an MGB too. liscensed “B-MUSED” – B – Bopp’in  Get it?

    Randy in Chandler Arizona, great B-bopp'in teritory. I must have the only one in the country made by Rich Industries in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on a 1986 Ford Cortina (english ford escort) It's a 1600cc straight four cylinder front engne, 4 speed, changed from right side driver to left side with several shafts and u-joints. BEBOP because I once had an MGB with license plate MG-BEPOP in Virginia.

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