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Hey,
When I was in CT, two of the wort years of my life, I used thermal tape on the oil pan. You can order it in tape or pad form from JC Whitney. I'd get the tape and weave it inbetween the cooling fins on the bottom of the oil pan.
Then you run the outlet up to the engine compartment. This allows you to plug in an extension cord and heat the lower block/oil. Thermal tape is basically what's in an electric blanket.
Anyway, at the time I was using it on a BMW 325i. I wraped it on the oil pan and plugged it in nightly. This worked great, and the car was outside exposed to the elements. The upside of tape is that you did not need to remove a messy oil stick every time you wanted to run the car. The downside here is that in the summer you'll want to remove it from your oil pan cooling fins. On the BMW this was not a consideration, as it was a water-jacket engine.
my $0.02
Ian
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