Hi John

I did a pop-top transplant and added a carat interior
to my 1991 8 passenger GL. I do have a complete ac
from a carat that I plan on installing one day.

I have seen on the net somewhere that a guy just
transplanted the fiberglass pop-top without the bed,
so he kept all the AC intact. Then he used some quick
release "stuff" to remove the central AC tunnel when
he wanted to pop the top. That would be pretty easy in
your case since you have a carat with AC.

Since I added the complete pop-top with upper bed (we
are a little familly of 3 and the fourth one is coming
soon), I think I will need to lower a little bit the
rear AC components because the ceiling with a upper
bed is flat, compared to a carat ceiling that is
dommed.

I plan on bolting the rear AC to the ceiling (upper
bed), and then create a custom cover that will have
the tunnels on each side of the van that will go
forward to the front AC vents, as a regular front
carat AC.

Have you seen a late westfalia?(90-91 I guess). They
have those fancy fresh air vents on the passenger side
made out of thin metal. Well, that's pretty much what
I want to do, but on both sides.

I plan on using some sheet metal for the rear AC cover
and the side tunnels.  That means a lot of sheet metal
bented and then covered from the same liner as a
regular passenger van. That's the easy part. The hard
part will be to hide all those screws holding
everything in place.

Don't worry fellas, if I go forward with this "little"
mod, IT WILL BE NICE. Like my pop-top transplant (for
those who have seen it).

Pedro dos Santos
91 vanagon GL + carat interior + pop-top transplant
85 ddcab project
86 panelvan

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Date:    Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:48:04 -0500
From:    John Runberg <jrunberg@MAC.COM>
Subject: multivan / base camper interior

It looks like we'll be putting a pop-top on the carat
later this year
(yeah!) so in the mean time I'm thinking about
interior possibilities.
The pop donor is a 84 full westy w/ decent interior,
but I'm not sure
we'll really need it. My fav set-up would be similar
to the multivan
(jumps, side table, rear + rear side cabinet). But I
have a few
questions...

- if I went w/ the 84 interior will I have to
reposition the rear seat
pegs? Does the driver's side peg need to come out?
- IIRC the base-camper rear seat is 3" forward of my
carat's. Correct?
This means that I'd have to move the pegs to put a
base-camper interior
in?
- For those who've installed pop-tops and had the full
tunnel AC --
what did you do? I'd like to keep AC in the van after
the conversion.

thanks,

john

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