Looks like my uncle Elroy's old still!
ok i'll bite. what the heck is SKUNKS? i know what turds are but never heard of skunks. johnny
SKUNK is Side Kars Up North Klub. north being anywhere north of south. good fun bunch. not as active as they once were.
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search for bikes or air-cooled cars rebuilt for use of LPG or other gas as fuel. Many of them has some special and often very impressive "patents" to get a heat for the pressure reducer. And the heat must be available as soon as possible, sooner than the engine cooler heats. Such thing needs really much heat, otherwise it freezes even in summer. This heat is always transferred by coolant, so you could make 2 small diameter holes in sidecar's body and install some small cooler from eg. 250cc bike.
Using the engines coolant to transfer the heat to the hack would be relatively easy. But that's if you have a water cooled egine.
For water cooled engines the coolant can obviously be used, to run through a heat exchanger in the sidecar. But for any motorcycle built in modern times there's a supply of hot engine oil to do the same thing. It gets hot long before the engine coolant and it can be much safer than using the coolant. The oil cooler acts the same as a heater core or radiator and is built to high burst pressures.
Every one of us has probably had an experience with a water cooled engine boiling over. That water may be 240-250 or more degrees depending on what coolant mix was used and the pressures can get really dangerous. If a heater hose blows because of an engine boiling over there's a very good chance of a serious scalding injury while being trapped inside the car.
The engine oil doesn't see the pressures that the coolant does so less chance of blowing a hose to cause a leak. The additional supply of oil in the oil cooler assembly is more protection for the engine and in hot weather the oil cooler may be mounted outside of car to further protect engine.
It just seems like a good way to do it to me.
if you really must have heat in the car, an easy way without having to invent anything --- pull a trailer with a small generator and run a cord to the car and use electric heating devices. You could do either 110v AC or 12v dc
If one decides to build a custom system using coolant or oil and a heat exchanger inside sidecar the little 3" x 3" x 2" pancake fans found in computer chassis are 12V, high speed, silent and intended for many long hours of trouble free use.
They're also capable of variable speeds using a rheostat or switched resistors. That is, one side of a DPDT dual pole dual throw rocker or toggle switch at full voltage and amperage, the other side of switch at reduced amperage from a resistor in circuit to fan. There was a good resistor for this purpose as used on mid-70's Chrysler products Electronic Ignition, the ballast resistor for that. Of course whatever you decide to do, check polarity notes on fans.
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