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On top of that use the alternator - at a steady 100 amp draw or so you'd be getting 1200 W to run either another heater, or some lighting, or with a power inverter you could easily power a little TV/DVD  Trailer trash living at its finest!!!
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K&N 3530, UR UDP, 19# Injectors, mystery mod, FMS wires, Fordchip.com chip, SVT: TB, Flywheel, clutch, exhaust
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By chance...would the author of this thread be a Republican? Sounds like something a Republican would employ as a solution? Your last name is not really Bush is it?
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Nahh, everyone knows that Republicans are rich and can afford a new hot tub heater. I'd guess "southern democrat"
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I can't believe nobody has posted the OBVIOUS solution. Buy the streetflight turbo kit but forgo the intercooler. Turbos can make very large amounts of heat and it would of course be very cost effective to put a $5k turbo kit on a wrecked contour (wrecked from a drunken night going in reverse down a country road, that's what we do in the south). You can find the streetflight website at www.streetflight.com/wreckedcontourswithturbosaregreathottubheaters 
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91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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Originally posted by abwamo:
... i can't believe any of this, and i can't believe that you guys are falling for this.
You're right, every Contour owner knows if you want to heat a hot tub you use the Zetec engine since it always runs hot.
HThomas:
Welcome onboard.
Your first post is certainly a unique one.
I'd suggest plugging in the engine block heater but that would be a potential electrocution hazard for hot tub users, unless an isolating transformer was installed in your AC supply. An alternate and safer method would be plugging the engine block heater into an inverter operating from the car's battery. The latter method will electrically load the car alternator having the additional benefit of increasing load on engine thereby producing more waste heat.
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Agreed, it will never work well. The engine is not running under load, therefore despite the RPM, it is not burning much fuel just spinning.
No, allow me to elucidate. My car is running under load. I made up a piggyback pulley for my dual mode damper (DMD, as you veterans call it) that is essentially a power takeoff. I have a lot of implements in shop and the back 40 that need a power source, and the John Deere 1400 Series loader backhoe's power takeoff is on the blink, so the Contour is pressed into yet another use: driving a hydraulic pump. I run a Gates Poly-V belt drive off the Duratec's modified FEAD to a Parker-Hannefin inPhorm 7900 hydraulic pump which, combined with the proper manifold block and accumulator, do a great job of supplying liquid power to much of my shop.
So in that regard, as long as I'm running the lathe, tablesaw, etc in my shop and hence using the hydraulic pump, the engine is running under load. Maybe not enough load though.
I saw a used Mustang MD250 inertia and eddy current chassis dyno on auction once at a liquidation sale, so maybe I can get one of those plumbed in to supply some real load to the engine. As an added bonus, all that hot water those dynos produce has to go somewhere - into my hot tub - which would be like killing 2 birds with one stone. But that's on the long term horizon.
Short term, I still have the not-enough-heat problem. I guess I will have to try loading the alternator, as Horseybug suggested. I still wonder, though, if moving to a stand alone system like the TEC-II would help here.
I wish I could post pictures but I'm kinda new at this computer thing. In terms of computer savvy-ness, I'm a n00bie; I kinda took the late 90's off because I thought that whole Internet thing would blow over. Maybe I can get my step-son's girlfriend to help me here (she seems pretty good with her AOL account).
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You must NOT live in California? I imagine their pollution laws wouldn't allow this?  Paul
Paul
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Originally posted by HThomas:
I kinda took the late 90's off because I thought that whole Internet thing would blow over.
That's the best quote in here!
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Originally posted by horseydug:
You're right, every Contour owner knows if you want to heat a hot tub you use the Zetec engine since it always runs hot.
I can't say which part of this post is the funniest, but I will vote that this is by far the funniest post I have read on these boards ever! This one even tops that post from a long time ago when the guys Contour had the habit of passing cars and revving really loud, or something like that.
Now this is entertainment!!
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Unfortunately I can't help on the water temperature issue, but surely you've mated the exhaust to a turbine pump for massaging water circulation. I'm fascinated to know more about this aspect of the hot tub; any chance you could give us a few hints???
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