*HELP Needed* 96 SL2 Engine Block Heater Location

From my understanding the engine block heater mounts on the engline block.

The question is where?

I'm sure there are plenty of people with this. Could someone go look.

I really appreciate this.
Michael

 

It bolts to the front of the block just to the left of the coil pack and
right under the oil dipstick. It should come with a diagram if you buy
it from Saturn.

 

Thanks for the info TC.

I'm on an overseas assignement where the electricity is 220V instead of the
110 volts in the US. Therfore I can't use the heater from Saturn. I'm
hoping to find a heater that will bolt on at the same location.

From my understanding the heater must fix rather snug to transfer the heat
into the engine properly. Do you know how large the heater is or even know
where I could find a picture or drawing? Are the Saturn engines found in
other makes (Opel, etc)

MO

 

The Saturn heater I looked at a few years ago was about the size of
my hand,shaped like an electric charcoal starter and would be rated at
about 320 watts. It wasn't held snug to the block so it heatsby radiation.
In my opinion it's less than 50% efficient. You'll have little troubel
improvising a substitute.

Walt

 

How about a voltage converter so you can use the Saturn heater?

http://www.220voltappliances.com/voltage_converters.htm

 

It's a heater. There are lots of cheaply available voltage converters that
work very well with heating devices to convert from 220 to 110.

Essentially, they're like light dimmers that are pre-set to the correct
setting so that, when attached to 220 Volts, they put out enough juice to
make a bulb (or heating element) light up as if it's getting 110 volts.

That would be my first suggestion.

My second suggestion would be to contact Saturn in Spring Hill and see if
they have any of the block heaters for their (short-lived) Japanese market
kicking around somewhere...

 

Yeah!

The TC-1600 on the page that Jonnie suggests will do well.

It's cheap (about $10 bucks), and will work swimmingly for a simple heater
such as a block heater.

Or, you could buy TWO block heaters and wire them up in series...

 

Should work in theory, so long as you get something rated for a
high-power resistive load. Those units use an SCR voltage regulator
or something similar.

 

Beware, that one says "not for continuous use".