Pre-heating Engine Fluids (G-Force Panoz)

you what we do for that so we've got uh our oil heater here it's plugged into regular 110 power and what that does is that heats up the oil tank which is right here um and once that gets up to a certain temperature around 55° C uh we'll bump the engine over and uh circulate that hot oil through the engine and then if you come around to the other side we've also got the water water heating up so this is our water heater right here and we have hot water coming out of here and it's going through our expansion tank at the top through the system through the block uh and it's coming out this upper radiator line right here so if you actually feel this line it's got some heat to it um and basically it'll just keep doing that until the water is also at about 55 C uh then at that point just clip a couple switches and fire her up is that a unit the same unit that would have been used on this car or is this a more current one this is a more current unit um I mean the same concept they would have either had this unit in particular it has uh its own Reservoir in it um and that that's probably a little bit more new style in the past they would have just cycled what water was already in the system and heated that up so but basically the same idea how often do you have to run these things or go through them to make sure they're still in running shape yeah you know we try and do every couple years just to make sure they're ready to go for events like this and whatever else they might might get asked to do so um yeah I mean it's usually like a a couple year thing you know we'll fire these cars up wake them up per se and make sure all the systems are good and they're ready to run you make a pretty simple process sound really interesting I'm glad no I mean it's it really it's just it's heating the oil heating the water uh you know the reason we do that is cuz the tolerances on this engine are really tight and we want to make sure that it's you know the hotter it is is things expand and they sit into the right tolerances where they'd be running so you know we fire it up cold the oil's thick there's a lot of other issues that could happen if if you do it that way so you know we take all the precautions by warming everything up and and making sure that it's it's it's as good as it can be we put the starter on the back and and actually fire it over obviously this car doesn't have an onboard starter so just like modern day Indie Cars they have the starting gear