"Newps" wrote in message
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The most important thing to heat is the oil, if you can only heat one
thing. I have two heat pads on my oil sump on my 182 and that's it.
Tanis and Reiff work but are only of value if you can't cover the engine
compartment.

Both Tanis and Reiff recommend an engine cover and plugs. Reiff (maybe
Tanis, too) recommends a prop cover as well.

I have a Kennon cover for mine and the whole engine
compartment is a toasty 80F while the oil is 100F.

I don't normally use a cover (cowl plugs), but it's in an unheated, hanger
with electricity. A thermostat kicks in when the air temp drops below 40F.

After 12 hours the oil and CHT's are over 100F and when I kick on cabin
heat, it's toasty in a few minutes.

Something else no one mentioned yet is a battery heater.

We don't get the extreme cold your northerners do here in Western Colorado,
but sub zero is not uncommon during winter.

In any case, with a Turbo'ed engine, cold starts are killers (not to sya
they aren't traumatic for NA plants as well).


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO