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Well the patch idea snow balled into a full quarter on the driver side, I tacked my patch in, then noticed the previous owners work was worse than I thought. So I cut out the bad repair and got to work. I had the outer wheel house already, have to order a quarter on Monday. And thx to a few good friends we are planing on mini tubs while we are there.
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Great build and well documented, just read through the whole thing. That's great to see you have been putting a lot of miles on it and enjoying the fruits of all your labor. I would like to know how you decided to mount your vintage air box under the dash though? Didn't see that in the thread. And keep us posted on the mini-tubs!
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Great build and well documented, just read through the whole thing. That's great to see you have been putting a lot of miles on it and enjoying the fruits of all your labor. I would like to know how you decided to mount your vintage air box under the dash though? Didn't see that in the thread. And keep us posted on the mini-tubs!
Thank you sir. It's been a lot of fun. I kinda regret doing quarters... But only because I want to be driving the car! But it's all good, it will be back on the road soon enough.
I used the brackets provided in the vintage air kit. They allow you to use factory holes. In my case, I marked and drilled holes after shaving the firewall for the bracket to mount securely. Most people never notice the car has a/c, look closely and you can see 4 stainless Allen head bolts on the firewall.
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I like a clean look aswell. I almost considered welding threaded studs inside the firewall to slide the bracket on and have no hardware on the engine side showing. But after a few beers... I talked myself out of that hassle. I ended up using riv-nuts in the bracket (its a bitch to get to after the evaporator is installed) to make it easy to remove/install the hardware from the engine side.
The hardware provided from vintage air will "work" but is ugly and requires some one with really small hands to hold the nut/bolts under the dash.
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Forgive my abstract description but what is that little box the heater hoses are running trough by the passenger side fender? Is that part of the Vintage Air sure-fit gen 4 system?
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Yes it's a valve that limits/stops hot water from flowing thru the evaporator when the cold air is activated. I would like to hide it in the fender but on the other hand don't want it to be hard to get to if it goes out.
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