Anyone ever fitted air-con to a kit car?
Running a ford duratec 2.5 V6. Any ideas? I have no clue how air-con works and i'm presuming all the donor air-con parts are probably too big?
Anyone tried an aftermarket job, or indeed used donor bits to get it running? Or even know all the bits i would need?
Thanks.
[Edited on 7/5/08 by grazzledazzle]
assuming you're talking about a seven style car, isn't it going to be overkill to try and air-con the entire planet, which is exactly what
you'll be doing if you don't have sealed windows and a roof
I believe Car Builder Solutions / NF Auto stock or at least can get an aftermarket aircon kit, but it isn't cheap.
http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/universal-air-conditioning--heater-kit-aircon-294-p.asp
£478 plus VAT!
AFAIK you need a compressor, which is driven off a belt from the engine (should be easy to find a mondeo with a compressor), somewhere for the heat to
go, ie. the bit on the back of your fridge, the bit where the air blows across (matrix) and some pipe and some gas!
HTH
Mike
Buy a tin top? Seven styles are meant to be minimum comfort, speed machines.
blimey, we've had two warm days and people want air con already
take off your fleece when driving and if still too hot, spring yourself with volvic, or tap water for the locost route.
Unless you've got a well sealed cabin there's diddly squat point, you'll just waste BHP making cold air that'll rapidly disappear from various leaky points...
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Originally posted by 02GF74
blimey, we've had two warm days and people want air con already
take off your fleece when driving and if still too hot, spring yourself with volvic, or tap water for the locost route.
On a hot and humid day you won't be able to see where you're going for fog...
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
On a hot and humid day you won't be able to see where you're going for fog...
Guys...
We haven't established what the poor chap is driving yet!
With a Ford V6 Duratec I'd guess at something mid engined and fully enclosed. Aeon GT, GTM, Ultima (?). In which case aircon might be quite
desirable.
I put my head in the cabin of an Ultima on a hot day - not nice without aircon.
Sorry should have furnished you with more details.
One off front engined coupe, fixed windows with small sliding air vents. Gets driven around the south of france a lot. Last cockpit reading 42C.....