74 Dart Sport Heat / AC Dilemma
I am just about finished installing a classic auto air kit into a 73. No it does not fit out of the box but its not hard to make it fit.
The controls are pretty simple. I used an AC panel and removed the vacuum switches. Then I took a lever from a heat only panel and installed it on the AC panel. Thats it, hook the cables up and go. The plastic body is the same for heat panel and ac panel so everything swaps from one to another. Sure you could just use a standard heat only panel and it would work. I actually managed to get two out of three modes lined up to what the panel says. Even the classic kit installing in a 71 down car does not do this.
The next hurdle is mounting the box on the firewall. I made up a plate to do this and it worked pretty good. I still have to make some block off plates for the holes that the old lines went through. had I known I was going to AC this before I painted I would have welded them flush.
So the only difference your going to run into installing this into a 73+ car is the heater box mounting and the control panel. The procedure is all the same for the rest of it.
I am just about finished installing a classic auto air kit into a 73. No it does not fit out of the box but its not hard to make it fit.
The controls are pretty simple. I used an AC panel and removed the vacuum switches. Then I took a lever from a heat only panel and installed it on the AC panel. Thats it, hook the cables up and go. The plastic body is the same for heat panel and ac panel so everything swaps from one to another. Sure you could just use a standard heat only panel and it would work. I actually managed to get two out of three modes lined up to what the panel says. Even the classic kit installing in a 71 down car does not do this.
The next hurdle is mounting the box on the firewall. I made up a plate to do this and it worked pretty good. I still have to make some block off plates for the holes that the old lines went through. had I known I was going to AC this before I painted I would have welded them flush.
So the only difference your going to run into installing this into a 73+ car is the heater box mounting and the control panel. The procedure is all the same for the rest of it.
