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To: british-cars@alliant.Alliant.COM, tobin@acsu.buffalo.edu
Subject: Hot Healeys
From: Roland Dudley <mit-eddie!dtc.hp.com!cobra@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 90 14:08:38 pdt
 >I _think_ this bounced.  So here it goes again. I'd like to use this as
 >a test too.  Would somebody reply.  I think either our mailer has a
 >touch of Alzheimer's (or the dummy at the keyboard).
 
 >> The NACA ducts usually do point the other way.  But then, they are
 >> usually to get air INTO the car.  With the Healey the problem is
 >> getting hot air out of the engine compartment.  More precisely, get it
 >> out by some way other than through the cockpit!  I've melted sneakers
 >> on the throttle pedal.
 >> 
 >> Mike Tobin
  
 
Loud & clear here at HP in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley.

It used to irritate the hell out of me to have to drive my Healey in 100
degree + F weather with the heater on to keep if from over heating.  I
never understood why the cockpit seemed to hold the heat so well in the
summer but nary a calorie in the winter.

Roland


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