What's the best defroster/defogging recommendation

#21

kishg wrote:

Given the tepid output of that blower I’d be shocked if it had enough output to add warm air to the cold air blowing around the open-windowed cockpit. You ideally would have a system with greater CFM than the stock blower on high.

How common are heater core failures in E30s with well-maintained cooling systems? It seems like there is a lot of re-engineering without much benefit.

#22

It depends on how you define the benefit of the re-engineering.

Is it to increase the car / driver’s performance or to give everyone something to talk about / do.

#23

Works quite well on my vert even on very cold days like today (23F in NYC today).

#24

kishg wrote:

With all the windows open?

#25

what ever happened to soap/shampoo on the inside of the windshield and/or the old “rag on a stick” standby? you e30 racers are too high tech…

#26

dmwhite wrote:

Ya, right Dave. And just where does a sensor suite with flashing lights go on a stick? Sheeze.

I can see it now…“Just after turn 6 the Traqmate data shows that I engaged my rag-on-a-stick for two quick wipes”.

Subject change. Hugely OT.

As I typed the above gag my 6yr old says “Daddy, can boys marry boys”?

Oh good grief.

#27

Thats not too OT - Dave had that same question.

Craig told him he was already married.

#28

dmwhite wrote:

unfortunately “rag on a stick” isn’t legal as per the spec e30 ruleset. it may be construed as “ballast”

#29

IndyJim wrote:

[quote]Thats not too OT - Dave had that same question.

Craig told him he was already married.[/quote]
It still creeps me out when Dave calls Craig “Daddy”…

#30

Ranger wrote:

That’s what ChaseCam is for! :stuck_out_tongue:

#31

Here’s my solution to the defroster on a car with a dash bar. Not shown is that I removed the plastic ducts from the bottom of the dash.

#32

what are we looking at Jim?

#33

Airbox at center and sheetmetal the runs along the bottom edge of windshield.

#34

sheet metal modification to stock venting worked well.