Jeez!
It was like looking for the Arc of the Covenant trying to find this thread, it was so buried. But I finally found it in the back corner. Section E, building 437, Corridor 19, shelf 7, space 213.
It's 76 degrees here in Birmingham today. All thoughts of power adders took a back seat to the inevitability of 98 degree days soon enough.
I decided to unbox the rear mount A/C unit and put the evaporator in and cut the (is it a package tray,...or a hat rack?) for the air intake.
The first thing I had to do however was to relocate the trunk mounted battery forward. The A/C replaced my hoopty 10" sub/amp combo that was back there and forced me to re-think the sub situation. I think I'm gonna put it where the battery used to be behind the left rear tire, so like I said, the battery had to move up front ( That's probably a switch around here huh,.... somebody actually moving a battery to the
front of the car)
For those that don't know, that is an Odyssey dry cell. It don't give a rats red bunion hole how it's mounted, so to save space, I turned it up on end.
After all of that junk got done I moved on to the Evap. This system is a Vintage air piece that is actually intended for a street rod, but if we keep it down,....maybe my car won't hear us. ( Cause if I was my car, I'd be offended at the notion I'm sporting some stodgy A/C system typically found in some 37 packard street rod)
Officially, the reason I'm trunk mounting an A/C system is to keep A/C lines out of my firewall (why,....because I think they look like ass.
) The other reason was I'd have to blow the charge to even get a valve cover off the engine. So,......now you know.
I filled the firewall where the A/C lines used to be, and installed this dude:
The two big honkin' holes are outlets, and it came w/ these two dorky surface mount vents that mount on the ( what is is supposed to be again??? Oh yeah,...a package tray) But I'm not going to use those, I'm still working on that.
The air inlet required another big-assed rectangular cut into the tray, but it was less obtrusive, so I'm gonna run it as is,
I'm not too concerned about cutting my poor car up, ( I mean... really) especially back behind the seat. When I got it, somebody had sawzalled the entire bracing structure out so they could jam some stupid dual 12 sub box back there. I fixed it w/ what I had at the time, but since then, have become fond of my galvanized holy angle, so I'm keeping it.
No comments about the holy angle, you're supposed to be looking at the Evap.
Really! look at the raggedy assed cut line my boy "B" took when he cut the support braces out so he could rattle the gold off of his grilleW/ his new 12 to the 2.0 Dub Subs.
(know what I'm sayin' MMaayn)
I think I'll duct the outlets to two sets of "Eyeballs" that I'll mount in the plastic side panels, facing forward right about where your shoulders would be if you were sitting back there. But since no one, ( including you) is ever gonna sit back there, you needn't worry about my car giving you the cold shoulder.