On 5/20/06, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   I will also be taking Dan Flemings suggestion to put one together
> > from Vintage Air or similar aftermarket air available for hotrods. They
> > have
> > a universal kit which looks like it may easily fit behind the dash. I
> > find
> > the prospect of a having a contemporary system more appealing.
> >
>
> Having suffered the horrors of driving through 109degF heat in an un-AC'd
> vanagon, air conditioning is definitely my next project. Regarding a Vintage
> Air type setup, I've wondered how one deals with the outside airflow issue.
> Shoehorning a condenser into the air box sounds reasonable enough, but then
> how do you rig the system to recirculate the inside air instead of
> continuously pulling in and cooling outside air? Or do you just live with an
> AC system that only ever blows air 30 or so degrees* below the outside air
> temperature? It seems like VW's engineers didn't even try, instead just
> putting in a separate system.
>
> *or even less, depending on how fast you go, pushing a greater volume of
> air per unit time past the evaporator...
>
> --
>

John,

The new custom air systems have all those ptions in mind and do offer them.
Then even offer a heater/defrost option. You could literally yank out all
the VW stuff and install theirs in place.

BenT