Davsurfa
Torque Junkie
Living in the UK we don't get to enjoy the warmer climates and this causes havoc with my bottle pressure. The solution being a bottle heater but the best price I can find is £140!! Although this may not be a huge amount of money I can think of better things to be spending it on and would only pay it if I have no other choice(as I figure I REALLY do need a heater) and I prefer making stuff that works rather than just buying bolt on goodies. So I've had an idea or three about how to keep the bottle warmer and wanted your input as to whether or my ideas are good to use, bad or outright dangerous.
So first idea is to move the bottle from the boot in to the middle of the rear seats using the cabin heat to warm the bottle. Even though this would mean cutting my rear seat up I reckon it would be the easiest to do. As far as the legal side of it goes over here there is no law stating where the bottle can or can't be mounted, just that it needs to be secure.
Second idea is to extend the heater ducting from underneath the front seats straight through to the boot and then controlling the heater via the heater control on the dash. It'd only heat the boot space when directed to the footwells.
Third idea is to tap in to the engine coolant and run an extra hose from the original system through the car, spiral it around the bottle then back down to another part of the original system creating a loop. Although this would be a fair days work it would be regulated to an extent by the thermostat so the coolant in the hose shouldn't get much above 90 to 95 degrees as the 'stat opens at 88. The other bonus is that with more fluid in the system it should also create extra cooling. If I was to use this system I'd place a valve in the system so that I could turn it off in summer if the ambient temp is warm enough.
All help, replies and responses greatly appreciated
So first idea is to move the bottle from the boot in to the middle of the rear seats using the cabin heat to warm the bottle. Even though this would mean cutting my rear seat up I reckon it would be the easiest to do. As far as the legal side of it goes over here there is no law stating where the bottle can or can't be mounted, just that it needs to be secure.
Second idea is to extend the heater ducting from underneath the front seats straight through to the boot and then controlling the heater via the heater control on the dash. It'd only heat the boot space when directed to the footwells.
Third idea is to tap in to the engine coolant and run an extra hose from the original system through the car, spiral it around the bottle then back down to another part of the original system creating a loop. Although this would be a fair days work it would be regulated to an extent by the thermostat so the coolant in the hose shouldn't get much above 90 to 95 degrees as the 'stat opens at 88. The other bonus is that with more fluid in the system it should also create extra cooling. If I was to use this system I'd place a valve in the system so that I could turn it off in summer if the ambient temp is warm enough.
All help, replies and responses greatly appreciated