Re: Howard's 47 Custom project

Posted by HH56 On 2013/8/9 17:14:56

A little progress with wiring and interior stuff this week. Dash is on hold. I had tried it again and finally sent GIT photos of the roller and the artifacts I'm having problems with. Evan responded and said she would send another roller. Once that arrives - hopefully next week - then it will be time to finish the dash -- and see if the roller or the rollee is the problem.

In the meantime, am still trying to decide exactly how to handle AC. Unit wise, I am committed to a trunk unit and have specs on a couple I think can be modified to have a different air return and to use 6v. Am starting to work a little on the interior so need to come up with a plan for the vents fairly soon.

The big central vent behind the rear seat center is not really an option function wise -- even if I did have one to copy, it would be mostly for looks.

While this may be blasphemous to some, am toying with making a distribution box on the package shelf. Shelf would look essentially the same only higher. To that end, could I ask a favor the next time someone is near their car. Would you be kind enough to take a measurement. Am interested in how much space is available between the top of the seat back and the package shelf. Am thinking there's about 3" but with the condition mine is in, can't get a decent measurement.

The working plan is have a couple of vents in back but also possibly go out the sides of the box and into the space between headliner and body. Go above the headliner with a duct or two to get to the front seat area. Not much room to play with so getting something adequate in size for decent airflow is still in the how to do it phase. I think the headliner bow fixing hooks on each side can be lowered to drop the outer section an inch or so in the area where it curves down above the doors. Not sure how it would look so idea is still iffy until a mockup is made. It may also turn out to be totally impossible to get something large enough to have decent air flow. In that case, package shelf vents only will have to do. In any case, return air will be from under the seat as Packard did it.