Air Conditioning

ezeglen · May 30, 2006

Not sure if this belongs in the interior forum or engines.

I'm going to be going to the local salavage yards to find a good 350 4bolt main for my 68 vert. Over the weekend I thought about adding air conditioning. When I'm looking for a donor truck for my engine should I find one that has air and take the air unit as well? I know none of this will be correct, but I'm not building a correct car. I'm building a driver that I might take on long trips.

Will I be able to hook up the air conditioning system in my 68?

thanks
Eric

click · May 30, 2006

Eric lets put this in heating/cooling, those folks know the bolt holes and stuff for a swap over.

TJS69 · May 30, 2006

Is your car an A/C car or a non-a/c car ?

Everett#2390 · May 30, 2006

Whatever the year of donor truck is, you would want to take as much of the A/C system as you can.

I would stick with the years of the orifice metered/controlled evaporator than the POA controlled evap.

ezeglen · May 30, 2006

Non AC is a pretty good bet. Not much was left of the car when I received it. The only item on the interior that was left installed was the center wood grain dash insert and there is no hole for the AC.

hhott71 · May 30, 2006

A complete aftermarket AC/Heat/Defrost system is available for 67-78 Camaros its about $1100-$1200 complete
79-81 there is an Indash AC kit available.

You can get the kit as seperate units, The insides (Evaporator, controls, vents etc)
a Condenser and hose kit
Compressor and mount kit

The kit needs AC pulleys for the crank 3 groove, 2 groove water pump and a 2 groove PS pulley is handy too.

ezeglen · May 30, 2006

Everett#2390 said:
Whatever the year of donor truck is, you would want to take as much of the A/C system as you can.

I would stick with the years of the orifice metered/controlled evaporator than the POA controlled evap.

Do you know what years I should avoid. I assume that the newer trucks would be the POA controlled but around what year did they do this? I'm probably going to look for a mid-80s truck.

thanks again

Everett#2390 · May 31, 2006

ezeglen said:
Do you know what years I should avoid. I assume that the newer trucks would be the POA controlled but around what year did they do this? I'm probably going to look for a mid-80s truck.

thanks again

POA controlled trucks were from the 70's. I'd start looking at least 88 & newer. Trucks with the short compressor are good donors.

An orifice system will have an union/connection in the liquid line, the smaller diameter line, close to the upper control arm and the line itself will look "pregnant" for about 3 inches. This where the orifice resides.

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