Hey Marty.
I did quite a bit of looking up on this.
If you have a google around you'll find a few have done this sort of mod. With the wattage of the heater core being around 150 - 200 watts most people have said it is not up to the job.
Maybe test it out before putting to many hours into it!?
Anyway - just hought i would pass on my search results.
let's us know how it goes.