12:05 Garage- ’70 Duster build

racerjoe said
I went back and forth on this for a long time. I'll be using a universal evaporator since all my lines will enter the car in the wheel well. I like the idea of having electronic controls because it reduces the amount of knobs from 4 to 3. The vintage air electronic evaporator is huge and I was worried about it taking up too much real estate under the dash. Some smaller electronic options are Classic auto air and Restomod Air. The price starts getting crazy on those brands ($1000), not to mention the $350+ controller. A friend had the Vintage Air Gen II super empty fitment box so I gave it a try. It's small, but needs the 4 knob controller. Once I saw the price (~$500), I figured I could get over having an extra knob and go with the Gen II. I'm going to make something to mount along the bottom side of the dash to house the louvers and controls. I have a few ideas in my head, just need to turn them into sheet metal.

This is useless info now, but thought I would post some info I found out last week.

Been brainstorming how to replicate some of the features from the Challenger I just sold into my Duster. AC was one of those, but the auto temp feature felt like too big of a task. Asked Vintage Air if they had any options to control their Mark IV evap with a tablet (expecting that said tablet would obscure the OE climate controls). Guy replied that they did not, but that Dakota Digital had partnered with them to create a controller that monitored air temp and adjusted the blend doors to maintain it. Very cool!!

https://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=821/mode=prod/prd821.htm

It sure was nice to get in the car and just start driving without messing with any temp controls regardless of what it was like outside (outside of defrost). Really has me thinking of making a run at a Mark IV evap and DD controller at some point.