dip stick heater-good idea or?
 

After reading about the need to warm up the oil on the 911's, I had this idea. Years ago, when I needed to park my cars {not p-cars} outside in the winter, I used a dipstick heater.You took out the oil dipstick, inserted this heated one in, and plugged it in. I say it got HOT to the touch, and I dont know if it helped or not. Would this type or pre-heating the oil help out 911's anytime of year? If you know you were going for a drive the next day, you could plug it in the night before wheather its hot or cold outside. Am I way off base here? any thoughts?SmileWavy

With a dry sump, you'd only be heating the oil in the tank. The engine and oil that drained back into the sump would not beenfit from this....I think the benefits would be very limited.......Just my .02....

With such a heater in the air cooled 911, you'd only be warming the oil in the tank, not the oil in the sump, which is the first oil the pump picks up. Then there would be the problem of your gearbox oil still being cold. If you talking VERY cold weather, I'd think an incadescent trouble light underneath the engine, maybe a shroud of aluminum foil to direct the warmth up. But really, to get oil to moving parts as soon as possible on startup? Synthetic oil is probably your best bet.