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TAZ
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Couple hours spare do I mounted the vintage air air conditioning unit.ImageImage

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Errol62
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Tidy job taz. Does it draw from the plenum, or recirculate only?
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Unfortunately mate unless somebody comes up with a smaller unit for us the loss of the glovebox seems the only way.
Still love what your doing.
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So why I wait for my VE Commodore boot hinges ( will be repurposed into bonnet hinges) to arrive I thought I would slice and dice the bonnet catch to see if I can use the original set up. Luckily it appears that it will fit past the new radiator.ImageImage

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TAZ
This is is what I have done

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Hope this helps I can take more photos if needed
Bloody Photobucket stuffed up I added the first photo to the other photos
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Harv
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I had to slice and dice the lower bonnet catch on the wagon too. No room for a normal fan between the SBC and radiator, so had to run thermofans on the "push" side of the radiator. Cut a fair amount of the bonnet catch to get two Davies Craig fans in.

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Bonnet hinge mod is underway.ImageImage

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Nice mate thanks for posting the pics :thumbsup:
A mate of mine is doing the ls1 conversion in his eh wagon and I told him to check out
Your thread on here for inspiration and tips :D
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Just need long arms to mark the inside back hole when the bonnet is shut and it's basically done ImageImageImage

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Clever stuff Taz. Thanks for sharing.


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Well the bonnet opens and shuts, still need to tidy it up but the main part it done.Image

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Fabbed up a cover panel for the radiator and front bonet catch support bar. It will have cut outs in it to allow air flow.ImageImage

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Guessing you won't be at Geeveston this weekend with it. Happy with the progress so far?
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Old61 wrote:Guessing you won't be at Geeveston this weekend with it. Happy with the progress so far?
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