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Date:         Sat, 20 May 2006 12:16:22 -0700
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: A/C in a Doka
Comments: To: BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com>
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> > I will also be taking Dan Flemings suggestion to put one together > from Vintage Air or similar aftermarket air available for hotrods. They > have > a universal kit which looks like it may easily fit behind the dash. I find > the prospect of a having a contemporary system more appealing. >

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 Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"


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