Thread: Heaters for Hot Rods

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I sometimes ask myself why I have roadster in snow country? Does anyone know anything about, or had any success with the Speedway "Mojave" universal heater?

I have a small heater in our 34 roadster,Vintage Air. Hot water type, Works great. Tryed electric type, no good.

I have an electric in my Beetle, and it does keep the window clear, but not much else.. My hotrod will have the Vintage air firewall mounted coolant/ hot water type

I wouldn't be without a heater in my cars, I like the vintage type, you can pick them up from Ebay for a few dollars, they usually hold water well and only need updating with a 12v fan, cheap computer fans are good also 12v motorcycle fans.

Here's a few i have restored

Those look great. Nice job. I have located a vintage heater which I can repair and clean up, but boy does it seem to take up a lot of room.

You could always install these in the seats. Takes up 0 room.

Steve those are too cool! I mean hot.
I bet they look fantastic in some of the rides you have built.

Originally Posted by roadster32

I wouldn't be without a heater in my cars, I like the vintage type, you can pick them up from Ebay for a few dollars, they usually hold water well and only need updating with a 12v fan, cheap computer fans are good also 12v motorcycle fans.

Here's a few i have restored

Yes Steve they look very cool, the 2nd one is in Sue's RPU

Originally Posted by stovens

Steve those are too cool! I mean hot.
I bet they look fantastic in some of the rides you have built.

if your pretty handy you could probably butcher a late model heater and re-arange the heater core and fan.
just a thought

Most of them are to big i'm afraid, again look at computer water cooling rads, small but very efficient and quiet cheap.

Originally Posted by spikeo

if your pretty handy you could probably butcher a late model heater and re-arange the heater core and fan.
just a thought

Seat warmers is what I am planing on using.

for my 351 pinto i made a wooden box with an old heator core and blower but i dont have a pic of it .. worked great ..

neat pick up!

Am putting a Mojave heater in my Plymouth wagon. not mounted yet but it will be above the trans tunnel and directing the warm air to both sides of the floor.

I have the Vintage Air heater in my '31 (I did have a VA air unit in the same place prior) and while they are fairly big, if you do the installation before wiring and gauge set up, you can hide them.





There are two dash vents and a huge floor vent that is like a hurricane when it's on high. I did have to cut the control off and have to manually open that floor vent as with an 'A' you do run out of room to loop a cable real quick.



This is the firewall fitting - a modified 4 hole a/c version:



The way my car firewall is set up, I couldn't install one like Steve has in his DW's car