[VintageLambo] Re: Cold weather starting...

In a message dated 12/20/02 6:24:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, aaron@telespecialists.com writes: Try to install a coolant warmer/block heater, before getting silly with the ether, esp. having such an expensive engine. How effective would this be with an alloy block I wonder? It"s not really cold here - around 40 deg. It"s just that the gas takes a bit more of a shot to get it started (starting seems to gradually decrease in efficiency below about 60 deg., which I take to be the average temperature in Rome....) The warming blankets are for getting oil warm enough to crank over in really cold areas - mine cranks just fine. If you give it too much of a shot, you wet the plugs, and have the problems I am dealing with. Sometimes plugs dry out on their own, sometimes once wet they"ll still be wet if you take them out months later. I just have to get around to pulling at least half of them and drying them out, I guess. Meanwhile I will leave it a couple of days, charge the battery, and go out there to give it a try - hope springs eternal. Maybe if I try it on Christmas day..... Bill