[MR2] mk1 underheating

[felix at crowfix.com]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:16:45AM -0500, scottl at cape.com wrote:
> In my expeirence no Mk1 has great heat what's the temperature goes below
> freezing. With the heater pipes on the outside of the car there's lots of
> area to lose heat before it gets to the heater core. In the next week or
> two I'm going to try and insulate the heater pipes. Fingers crossed I
> might actually be able to get some real heat out of it after that.

My 86 has NEVER had a problem with not enough heat.  The temp needle
sits just to the cool side a smidge, and even the year I lived in
Tahoe and went thru 0F winter days, it never faield to warm up within
a couple of minutes.

The only symptom of underheating was when I once lived near enough a
freeway onramp that the gauge would climb to near the middle, but when
I accelerated in 2nd and 3rd to 6000 RPM, it would suck the needle
back down until I got on the freeway and dropped into 5th.  I always
figured it was the high RPM running coolant around so much faster
thnan the mile or so before hand.  I now have 392K miles and the only
cooling problems I have ever had were a couple of burst hoses.

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