A/C conversion / upgrade

[Dust Ya]

I have a 70 Duster which is a stock 318 no A/C. If I want to add stock AC set up from a doner car will everything bolt up???

I heard that the fire wall cut outs are diffrent from a non-factory AC car and one that had it as a dealer option. Is this true? Solutions? I live in Arizona and AC is getting to be a must for me. Thanks in advance.

 

[slantsixdan]

Yes, it's true. Swapping factory A/C onto a non-equipped car is a difficult, costly fool's errand. See here.

 

[toplscuda]

I bought a front clip to replace some sheet metal on my cuda at one time. It was a firewall forward from a 69 Dart. I pulled the controls out of the dash along with the complete ac/ heater box. Then I cut out the firewall section that had the ac components mounted to it. It fit perfectly as a template over my existing firewall. I traced out the hole differences and then cut them out. The ac box then bolted right up where the original heater box was. I bought an ac dash plate and the controls mount right up to it. Now I can't tell you how welll it is going to work until I get the car back together but at least everything is there for it.

 

[dodge71demon]

I'm going to convert ny 74 Scamp to factory air BUT I have a complete donor 75 Scamp that I will be using for the parts and to make templates off of.I can understand where this would be difficult if you were scrounging parts but should be pretty cut and dry having a donor car in the garage and everything works.