Re: AC performance

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 6/12/99 1:20:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< Why not just roll down the front windows for the first few minutes of 
 driving so the hot air can be replaced with warm.   >>

Say it's a warm month here in LA and your GTV-6 has been parked in the sun.  
Even using one of the sun shades that are so popular here (covers the 
windshield to minimize greenhouse heating) you come back to the car and find 
it is about 160F inside.  Start the car and open the windows and sunroof to 
let out the heat and let in the cool ambient breezes which may be 115F.  The 
interior surfaces of the cabin continue to radiate heat like glowing coals 
for hours afterward, probably putting more heat into the interior air than 
the offsetting cool air being introduced by the paltry AC unit.  Without the 
windshield sunshade in most summer months it is impossible to touch the 
steering wheel with bare hands without getting 3rd degree burns unless you 
drape a towel over the wheel if the car is parked outside - and this is 
pretty tricky if you go to a restaurant and must hand the car over to a 
valet.  Hence, the popularity of stringback driving gloves as a health 
measure.  With leather seating surfaces, Nomex underpants are also suggested.

Charlie
AROSC
LA, CA
87 75
84 GTV-6

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