Garage Sale Item Into Hot Air Intake

[DesertSasquatchXploration]

1977 Heinz recipe box XL size. Pulls hot air from under the cylinders, not a high flow setup but... if it keeps the intake temps warm its a win. Will test it out this week fingers crossed if its a fail I'm out 5 bucks and a few hours of time, put it up with the other odd R&D parts.

[Wulfthang]

Cool idea..no pun intended! A simple solution that looks like it'll work.

[madmike]

At first i saw the shrubs with snow on them ,, then I realized it's a fake Xmas tree ,, it don't get that cold in CA Nice Box ,wait till the Canuck see's that Cheers,Mike
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'Black Ice'Drag Buggy 'Turbo'
Rail Buggy 1915 turbo
76 Drag/Street bug 2180cc 'Turbo' 11:85 @113 mph"If I go any faster I'll burn up the Hamster" ,gets 28 mpg. also 10/09/22 11.90 @115 mph
"If I'm ever on Life Support,UNPLUG Me, Then Plug me back In see if that Works"

[oprn]

I see and I like!!

Also take note that we finally have someone who knows what side of the air cleaner the crankcase vent goes on!
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[Vanapplebomb]

That is pretty awesome. Sometimes it is a lot of fun to do something for show. Cool that it is practical as well.
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1800 Type 4 Berrien 295

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=487021

[DesertSasquatchXploration]

Barstow gets down to 16F with snow and wind Seen it multiple times my propane tanks froze solid. This is the first year i've seen very high humidity and 30degs, I never had a soaking wet air filter until the other week.

I like the coffee can around the carb Oprn built wonder if I could use the smog port from the fan shroud warm the air thru the 3/4 steel tube welded on my exhaust and heat the outside of the carb as well.

[dustymojave]

[oprn]

I think preheating the fuel is a good idea. I tried it once many years ago but got it too warm and cause a vaporizer lock. The trick is to get it warm but not hot. I might have another go at it again sometime.
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[dustymojave]

It would be interesting to see what's at the bottom end of that flex intake.
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
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[DesertSasquatchXploration]

Don't mind my smashed pushrod tube Position can be adjusted up or down a inch or two. It works, after driving for 15 mins the box was warm. Harvested a latch from a fancy gift box it might unlatch off road we will see. I'm going to take it out this weekend to the black mountain area check out scouts cove and the desert goldfish.

[DesertSasquatchXploration]

I'm thinking about buying or making the tins that curve under the motor. It would be the right thing to do and then I would have lots of hot air at any speed and RPM.

[dustymojave]

Hmmm...Very interesting
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

[ORANGECRUSHer]

or... just take that bottom piece a little further and t into a tube that's about 1/2" bigger circumference than your exhaust pipe. Put that tube around the exhaust so it's pulling air past the exhaust all the time.

I did this with a crappy progressive carb I had on my first VW motor. I did some pretty extreme things to get hot air and that carb just kept icing up. I wasn't even driving it in the winter. We get REAL winters here in Michigan.
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Brian H.
I may not know everything,but I will try to help if I can
OrangeCrushER Berrien Warrior 2.4L Quad4
LAZY MARY 1970 Baja 1835cc

[DesertSasquatchXploration]

[ORANGECRUSHer]

I wasn't critizing your setup. Sorry you took it that way.
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Brian H.
I may not know everything,but I will try to help if I can
OrangeCrushER Berrien Warrior 2.4L Quad4
LAZY MARY 1970 Baja 1835cc

[DesertSasquatchXploration]

I'm not offended. If you tried something that didn't work why would you mention it as a solution?

Perhaps buzzed? That would explain it.

[oprn]

Center mounted carbs need both the heat from above the carb and the heat on the intake manifold. Inlet to the carb heat prevents carb icing and manifold heat stops the gas pooling in the horizontal section. Two separate problems with two separate solutions. The colder it gets the more severe the symptoms are.

I haven't tried warming the gas yet but I think that would help too but would be tricky to get it warm enough without vapor locking the carb.
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