67 Dart 270...Project Old School
I believe in the K.I.S.S. principle. With this in mind I decided to replace the entire heat/AC setup with a simple heater box setup. It is much more compact and is dead nuts simple with just a on/off low/med/high control knob. It has three ducts out which two will go to the defroster ducts in the dash and the third will get directed down at the feet.
It is compact at only 9" x 9" x 16" and it is a lot lighter then the parts it replaces. I do need to figure out how to handle the fresh air vent on the passenger side as the facory vent ducting is part of the AC/heater box.
The second picture shows the fan setup on the back with a center mounted electric motor and blower fans on each end.
In order to get the coolant into this heater box I decided to order a separate heater hose buckhead fitting. This came from a specialty hot rod shop.
I plan to start mocking everything up this weekend. I can then start planning out how I am going to close up all the left over holes in the firewall. Speaking of the firewall I picked up some sound deadner/heat reducing material that is self adhesive to apply to the firewall.
I am interested to see how well it works.
I believe in the K.I.S.S. principle. With this in mind I decided to replace the entire heat/AC setup with a simple heater box setup. It is much more compact and is dead nuts simple with just a on/off low/med/high control knob. It has three ducts out which two will go to the defroster ducts in the dash and the third will get directed down at the feet.
It is compact at only 9" x 9" x 16" and it is a lot lighter then the parts it replaces. I do need to figure out how to handle the fresh air vent on the passenger side as the facory vent ducting is part of the AC/heater box.
The second picture shows the fan setup on the back with a center mounted electric motor and blower fans on each end.
In order to get the coolant into this heater box I decided to order a separate heater hose buckhead fitting. This came from a specialty hot rod shop.
I plan to start mocking everything up this weekend. I can then start planning out how I am going to close up all the left over holes in the firewall. Speaking of the firewall I picked up some sound deadner/heat reducing material that is self adhesive to apply to the firewall.
I am interested to see how well it works.
