BenT, if any of the Vintage Air models support control and direction of fresh outside air please tell me which one. As far as I can tell, they run on inside recirculated air only. If true, this greatly complicates retrofit into the dash as a replacement for the stock air box. Removing the stock box to make room for it would leave a big hole to the outside Just blocking the hole somehow won't do. As desirable as AC is at times, complete loss of fresh air capability would not be an acceptable trade off to me. Mark BenT Syncro wrote: > On 5/20/06, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Having suffered the horrors of driving through 109degF heat in an >> un-AC'd >> vanagon, air conditioning is definitely my next project. Regarding a >> Vintage >> Air type setup, I've wondered how one deals with the outside airflow >> issue. >> Shoehorning a condenser into the air box sounds reasonable enough, >> but then >> how do you rig the system to recirculate the inside air instead of >> continuously pulling in and cooling outside air? Or do you just live >> with an >> AC system that only ever blows air 30 or so degrees* below the >> outside air >> temperature? It seems like VW's engineers didn't even try, instead just >> putting in a separate system. >> >> *or even less, depending on how fast you go, pushing a greater volume of >> air per unit time past the evaporator... >> >> -- >> > > > John, > > The new custom air systems have all those ptions in mind and do offer > them. > Then even offer a heater/defrost option. You could literally yank out all > the VW stuff and install theirs in place. > > BenT > > |
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