Mark, etal,
     Auto. AC in most cases  is at best marginally exceptable
in the worst  case situation.  It must work hard  to cool
a car fast that has been sitting all day in the hot sun.  This is
why hotter fresh air is not the best to be cooling.  In the
case of a vanagon with the large volume of air,  AC will
never work with this situation.  Think of it this way.   A
good working AC unit in your vanagon,  with one or both
of the fresh air vents opened.
    Besides vanagon leak enough air fresh anyway.

BenT Syncro wrote:

> On 5/20/06, mark drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> BenT, if any of the Vintage Air models support control and direction of
>> fresh outside air please tell me which one. As far as I can tell, they
>> run on inside recirculated air only. If true, this greatly complicates
>> retrofit into the dash as a replacement for the stock air box. Removing
>> the stock box to make room for it would leave a big hole to the outside
>> Just blocking the hole somehow won't do.  As desirable as AC is at
>> times, complete loss of fresh air capability would not be an acceptable
>> trade off to me.
>>
>> Mark
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> Mark,
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> I will investigate this further.
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> BenT
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