65 Barracuda daily driver
I don't really want to know how long I've been working on getting A/C for my Barracuda. But now I'm hopefully a lot closer to getting it done. The problem I ran into was that with the compressor bracket that I bought the compressor interfered with the fan. I'm sure it fits fine in bigger engine bays, but as far as I did my research, you either go with a rare, original bracket or you are screwed. But I figured that I could move the compressor to a different location. First I was gonna cut it with a dremel out of a flat piece of 1/4" steel. I'm a an architect, so I thought I could draw up a template in CAD and then transfer that onto the steel. Then I realized that I could also just take that template and send it to get laser cut. That turned out to be not that expensive, so here it is:
I am beyond excited and I will post the progress and hopefully before the summer is over I will have working A/C in my Barracuda! Problems I foresee is finding a belt that is long enough and getting the belt tensioner to get to touch the belt.
Once I have figured it out, I may offer a kit that should make a slant 6 early A-body A/C install much easier!
(The smaller pieces are basically just spacers and I really only need two of them, but the other two didn't cost extra, because I still wasn't at the relatively low minimum order value, haha.)
Old photo (I was too lazy to go outside): Right behind the radiator cap you can see the compressor bracket that came with the kit I bought a while ago. Moving the compressor towards the battery will hopefully solve the fan issue.
I don't really want to know how long I've been working on getting A/C for my Barracuda. But now I'm hopefully a lot closer to getting it done. The problem I ran into was that with the compressor bracket that I bought the compressor interfered with the fan. I'm sure it fits fine in bigger engine bays, but as far as I did my research, you either go with a rare, original bracket or you are screwed. But I figured that I could move the compressor to a different location. First I was gonna cut it with a dremel out of a flat piece of 1/4" steel. I'm a an architect, so I thought I could draw up a template in CAD and then transfer that onto the steel. Then I realized that I could also just take that template and send it to get laser cut. That turned out to be not that expensive, so here it is:
I am beyond excited and I will post the progress and hopefully before the summer is over I will have working A/C in my Barracuda! Problems I foresee is finding a belt that is long enough and getting the belt tensioner to get to touch the belt.
Once I have figured it out, I may offer a kit that should make a slant 6 early A-body A/C install much easier!
(The smaller pieces are basically just spacers and I really only need two of them, but the other two didn't cost extra, because I still wasn't at the relatively low minimum order value, haha.)
Old photo (I was too lazy to go outside): Right behind the radiator cap you can see the compressor bracket that came with the kit I bought a while ago. Moving the compressor towards the battery will hopefully solve the fan issue.