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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
When you say preheater do you mean a block heater, right, not a heat exchanger rig? Something that screws into the block and has an electrical heating element that warms the block used primarily in areas with snow/cold weather?
I commute 3.5 miles to work so extra heating of the oil is nice to get it to operating temp faster. If I was to get on it when it is cold to redline my oil pressure gauge looks like the pressure is going to go off the max value, and the few times I’ve done it I backed off. I can’t imagine that is good. There has to be a range of good presures.
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I was actually thinking more of something like this:
https://www.webasto-group.com/en/ori...l-fuel-heaters
I have one of those in my 4x4 and is really nice on a snowy morning. Starts by using a timer or remote control. 20 mins later the whole car is nice and warm. It heats the coolant and circulates it through the block and HVAC. So not just the engine is warm, cabin too and windows defrosted. These are available in sizes that fits the FT86 (available from dealers here).
If you only commute 3.5 miles it's a bad solution though as the engine should be run same amount of time the pre-heater was running (battery). Something electrical you plug in would probably be better. I think Webasto makes something like that too. Did investigate how they work.