Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:48:04 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
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I agree, the defrost vents won't help.
You really don't get piles of air rushing out on the end vents on the front
of the dash? I get enough air to balloon my shorts if I want to... ;)
Jake
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Jake, we've covered this before. I think my heater box is messed up, or
> maybe you have a higher tolerance for hot air around your head than I, or
> maybe it's just cooler where you live.
>
>
> > Summer settings in my '84 are:
> >
> > L---
> > L---
> > ---R
> > L---
>
> At 55 mph, only a gentle waft of air comes from the defrost vents. Enough
> to lift a Kleenex, but nowhere near powerful enough to be felt by Yours
> Truly. Besides, when it's 90F outside, I want air moving even when stopped
> at a red light. Maybe even more then. Thus a fan.
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
> Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
>> Hey Mike, I can't believe that your dash end vents don't bring in enough
>> air at 55 mph.
>>
>> Are they open, unobstructed, have you moved the 'Vent' slider from one
>> side to the other?
>>
>> Summer settings in my '84 are:
>>
>> L---
>> L---
>> ---R
>> L---
>>
>> Lots of air that way out the ends and on the feet. Its Dixie's only
>> drawback - the In-dash Behr AC usurps the end vents...
>>
>> Seeya, Jake
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <
>> camping.elliott@gmail.com <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe someday the air conditioning fairy will pay a visit and tell me
>> that because I've been a good boy I'll have A/C in all my cars
>> forevermore. More likely not, though.
>>
>> I have a dash-mounted fan like this one:
>>
>> <
>> http://www.overstock.com/Auto-Parts/All-Metal-12-volt-Dash-Fan/2672978/product.html
>> >
>>
>> And while it makes a quite pleasant whirring sound, the air doesn't
>> reach the driver. I've tinkered with the curvature of the blades but no
>> matter what I do, the fan is best-suited for blowing stuff off the
>> dash,
>> not cooling the driver.
>>
>> Now, if you take off the chrome wire cage and remove the blade
>> assembly,
>> then the blade assembly from one of these pops right onto the shaft:
>>
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Volt-Fan-12V-Suction-Base/dp/B001449QRY>
>>
>> Better blade design, it moves more air, and the air reaches the driver.
>>
>> Rather than stop there, though, I thought I'd ask the group if they
>> have
>> had good success with some other fan, or have come up with a good way
>> to
>> break up that bubble of hot air that seems to surround the driver and
>> passenger's faces and heads. (And no, I don't mean the hot air that I
>> emit when I express opinions!). At highway speeds, the wind wings are
>> far too noisy; and not enough air blows from the defrost vents or the
>> dash vents to do much good.
>> --
>> Rocky J Squirrel
>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>> Bend, OR
>> KG6RCR
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake
>>
>> 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
>> 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
>>
>> Crescent Beach, BC
>>
>> www.thebassspa.com <http://www.thebassspa.com>
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
>>
>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>>
>>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
Crescent Beach, BC
www.thebassspa.com
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
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