Swapping dashboards

Posted by Muir On 2012/8/8 1:33:57

Hi Everybody - new member, first post :)

I've had a really good look through the forum archives and am needing a spot of advice.
I'm looking at swapping out an aircon dashboard, where the top padding is all toasted and broken up, and all the wiring pretty bad (ex desert car) with a low mileage nice and tidy non AC dash.
I'm vaguely aware that the heater 'plumbing' and doodads pipe the heated air through the aircon areas, if so, will the heater still work with a non ac dash?
I could keep the aircon one in, and just swap over the padded tops and maybe some wiring (awkward!), but I'd lose the little modern aire trapdoor thingies in the top of the dash padding which I find quite groovy even thought they're colour coded.
I've no interest in running the AC as such (I live in New Zealand!)and a heater is way more important than ac.
Point me in the right direction here please...
Cheers
Muir