Got a large amount of the vintage air install completed today and yesterday. Strange thing is some of the stuff is dialed and fits perfectly and some is a royal pain and needs to be redesigned. I was concerned about how the evaporator was going to fit as I have cut up my core support to fit my winch a lot. No issues there. It fit perfectly.
The condensor was another issue. It lined up fairly decently on the firewall but the bracket that bolted to it that mounted it to the firewall was another problem completely.
The lines that are supposed to come out of the unit would not fit without heavy modification to he bracket. This is just a minor thing but it took about 45 minutes of cutting and filing to get it to fit well. Just don't get it when the other parts are so well thought out.
Here is how the bracket was before mods.
You can see that there is no way the lines will thread in right now.
I also had to trim the bracket as it was putting unnecessary pressure on the pressure line. This seems unacceptable.
This is how much I had to cut the bracket to get the lines to be accessible.
Anyway. I got it in, had to pull the diy4x dash to get the unit in. This is a two man job. Someone holds it while someone threads in the spacers and bolts. I had removed my windshield that helped a lot.
I do love how much this cleans up the engine bay. I have been waiting on this kit as once I have it in I will know what I have to work with on the firewall for mounting pcm etc.
I also got the truss bolted up and welded to the 14bff. My welder isn't hot enough to get decent penetration so the welds came out looking like Ray Charles welded them with his feet. That will need to be fixed.
Just like everything else Kurt makes this was just bad ass stuff.
Still need to get the wrap bars on but...
