Migraine: I think your Continental diesel has a manifold heater. I don't know much about these but I notice George KY in discussion telling someone about the heater they didn't know existed. This manifold heater works similar to glow plugs other than heating the intake manifold.
That magnetic heater, Michael speaks of works well. My brother has one large enough to cup right around oil pan. Once you have the oil hot, you know where your excess heat is going. I've really never seen anything more effective than hot crankcase oil. I can remember a sawmill operator back in the 50s, had a diesel forklift. Every night he drained oil, put it in a heated building. Next morning he warmed it on a camp stove. I've quite often built fires under oil pans on diesels. You have to be sure you have no oil or fuel leaks. I don't like this method but hot crankcase oil does work. The fires I used were barbeque charcoal in cast iron fry pan. I put them right under oil pan. I did this with my 6.2 diesel pickup once at -40. By the time the charcoal burned out, the diesel started and the heater generated heat within 45 seconds. I just throw this in to point out the value of warm or hot oil. I don't recommend the daily use of charcoal fires under the oil pan.
The other great one is the circulating coolant heater, with an element in an external tank. These lend themselves well on some engines, ideally they should have a block drain about mid engine, then a port into water jacket of head again about mid way along engine. The coolant drains into heater from bottom of block, is heated then rises to the head. This works same as thermosyphon, thus it is best if both ports are on same side with heater clamped between the two, in a vertical position.
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