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Subject:Re: Blog post about 85 doka
From:Chris Szpejankowski
Date:Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:47:37 -0400

If you tell me that you can elegantly cram two computer fans inside, I will trust your judgement :-).   Think foot well intake, rear exhaust. 

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Dnia 26 mar 2015 o godz. 15:32 Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> napisał(a):

> I have one in the shop. Want me to take pics with ruler beside?
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>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:23 PM, szpejankowski@gmail.com wrote:
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>> My idea is to use it as an air circulator. Rear AC works well, but I get a pool of warm air in the foot compartments. I would install fans inside this duct to move that air into the very cold rear compartment. I have never seen one of these ducts in person so it's tough to say whether it's feasible. 
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>> I have a rear facing fan by the shift lever now that kind of does this now. 
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>> Dnia 26 mar 2015 o godz. 14:53 Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> napisał(a):
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>>> Looks the same as the tunnel I had in my 82 westy diesel. Screws down to the floor and fits up under a slightly different heater cover. 
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>>> I suppose it could be adapted, but to be honest I don't think it works very well. In the doka it probably does supply enough warm air for the rear passengers, but in my westy it really didn't do much.
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>>> Installing a rear heater beats the duct hands down.
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>>> Alistair
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>>>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:45 AM, szpejankowski@gmail.com wrote:
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>>>> Is it possible to adapt that center heater floor tunnel to a later model Vanagon?
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>>>> Dnia 25 mar 2015 o godz. 18:14 Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> napisał(a):
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>>>>> Posted some bumpf about my neighbour's 85 doka. It's worth looking at just to see the nice colour choice he made with his repaint.
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>>>>> https://shufti.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/vanagon-85-doka/
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>>>>> Alistair