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"Shaved" cowl questions
When the cowl is "shaved", how are folks routing fresh air to the plenums for the heat and a/c system? I have rudimentary ideas on doing it, recalling the ducting on a '56 Mercury I used to have. My thinking is to use flexible ducting, okay a hose of some variety. How big a hose? I'm thinking of a 2" I.D. hose. What are other folks doing? Any pix?
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Re: "Shaved" cowl questions
I have not got that far.. But I shave the kick pannel vents too thinking that a old aire or vintage air system would work for air circulation..
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Re: "Shaved" cowl questions
Old air or Vintage air just cool and recool the air in the cab. Fresh air has to come in from the vents witch get their air from the cowl. That is what that area is under your cowl panel. One big air intake duct. If you seal off the cowl by shaving the slots in the cowl panel, that would cause any air that you get through the side vents to come from mainly the engine compartment. You would still get some from around the outside of the panel, because it is not sealed to the body, but the air mix from the engine compartment would go up. That is air you do not want inside your truck cab.
If I were to shave the cowl panel, I would also shave the vents inside the cab and use the side windows to get fresh air. WES
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Re: "Shaved" cowl questions
Not sure if this is acurate but didn't the early 50's chevy cars have a big air
duct from the firewall to the core support ? that wouldn't be too hard to fab up , just keep away as best as possible from radiator ??????????
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Re: "Shaved" cowl questions
Yep.... my 53 Belair had steel tubes about 2 1/2" dia going from the firewall to the rad support for venting. But that kinda looks butt ugly unless you use some polished tubes.
It might be cool to have a vent door in the cowl like the older trucks, havnt seen that done.
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Re: "Shaved" cowl questions
The engine air getting inside my cab would be one reason I made removable shield thet cover the square holes under the cowl vent they are just screwed on and can be removed if I need to access the wiper arm system..
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Re: "Shaved" cowl questions
Fresh air has to come from somewhere to feed the heater and A/C. I don't want it to come from the engine compartment....I got me some blowby to deal with. I remember the 53-54 Chevy's with the steel tubes. Basically, I just have to get clean air from the front of the vehicle and direct it to the system. If eliminating the kick panel vents is or should be part of this process, I reckon it'll be on the "to do" list.
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