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Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Anyone out there smooth their firewall when they installed Vintage air?
I have done this with several other vehicles but am now working on my personal 67 and do not have the Vintage air yet. I was hoping some people could post up some pics of how they smoothed their wall and where they ran the Lines. And how they went about mounting the unit without hardware in the wall. Thanks |
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
I'm gonna hop on here since this is a direction that I've been working through in my head also. I have the firewall shaved with the Porterbuilt panels but no Vintage Air or bulkhead connections thought out yet.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
You really should look at restomodair.com that is what I have,very easy to mount with the bracketry they supply.I also have their stealth micro controls,which I mounted with a 3d printed ac panel I got from coreyjonesdesigns.com,restomodair has a serpentine setup but I will be using March.I googled hidden ac lines and got great ideas on where to mount my bulkhead.corey has a panel that will work with vintage air should you go that route,great guy to do business with.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Shaved firewall.. No hoses can be seen around the firewall area.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
http://www.restomodair.com/synister/synister-bulkheads/
This company has some slick looking bulkheads if you are gonna put bulkheads in. I like both looks.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Here is 3-deuces...
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Mine is a southern air unit but, as you can see....before smoothing, after smoothing and then with the AC and Heater lines run through a bulkhead fitting
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
I just looked at the restomod website, man what a goat@#$!, not user friendly at all,
Most people just want to buy a complete package to mount/hook up and go, not jump around and try to find all the existing parts Probably go with some one else more user friendly
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Just getting started on mine, i have my Vintage Air but i have not tried to install it yet. i was thinking on welding my mounting hardware to the inside of the dash abd just use nuts to hold it in place. |
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I am thinking once I get the VA plates here I will weld a stud to the inside lower mounting location. At the top I will bead roll a shallow stepped channel ..... like the one someone might make in a lap welded 1/4 repair. I will weld that to the upper location co that I can slip the unit up under the strip and just mount the bottom with a nut. the rest of the unit will be mounted to the cowl with the front evaporator mounting plate. |
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Another shaved firewall but running the fittings out the front..
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
I recently redid my firewall and put the PB pieces in and got rid of some unused holes and smoothed all pinch welds out. I have a older Vintage Air system that was specifically for C10's and the unit outlets were too close to the firewall to do bulkhead type fittings, so I just cut up the plastic vintage air cover and used part of it.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Subscribed as I'll be doing this to my truck soon.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Bringing this thread back up as want to do same in my 70 2WD Blazer and hide bulkhead lines
So what Vintage Air system did you use and can you get lines running to run inside firewall to wheel well them to front?
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
thought I might as well add a pic as everyone loves pics
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
My builder and I figured out a way to run ac lines out the pass side cowl vent under the inner fender to hide the ac lines........
I am using Vintage Air front drive system and got the 90 degree elbows for lines to go staright down for lines to go under inner fender.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Wanted to revive this post a little with a couple questions in regards to keeping the firewall as smooth as you can
1. How are you mounting the lower AC bracket without drilling through the firewall? The upper looks to mount on the inside cowl piece where it wont be seen. 2. How is the "drain " hose routed if you only have the 4 bulkhead hoses ?
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
When I did mine, I was going to weld a 1/4-20 screw to the firewall and grind it, but didn't end up doing it and just used a chrome, button head screw instead.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
SCF100- I wish I would have went this route as well- looks great
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Banks - I agree, thought about some button head stainless ones as last option. Was thinking today of making a 90 degree bracket and using the cowl to hide the bolts
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Here's how mine turned out. Spent lots of time making sure everything was flat, then tightening that top bolt sucked the metal in making a depression.
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Re: Smooth Firewall With Vintage Air
Oh Yah, the factory vintage air hoses make spaghetti. Either get custom ones or have them modified.
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