[Healeys] Heating and cooling

[pennell at cox.net]

Gary,

Don't know if the attached pix will reach you or the rest of the list but they show the mod I made to "Patches".  Basically the driver side duct feeds a cold air box now.  The butterfly valve was fitted to a special homemade "Y" cannister to feed air on the passenger side.  Now air can run straight through as fresh air or be diverted to the heater blower for heating.  Inside the cockpit on the firewall are mounted two 2" flexible hoses to aim air at the passenger and to the driver.

See attached pix.

Keith

---- Editorgary at aol.com wrote: 
> In a message dated 7/5/10 7:32:02 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
> 
> 
> >   After discussion wih Line and all the answers we 
> > > receive we will do the ride with the hardop but presenly we are in 
> > > the process of blocking most of the litlle space where the hot air 
> > > is coming from the engine lets try that and we will see. If it not 
> > > ok i wil leave the hardtop somewhere on our way .......to Galena
> >
> Sealing off the heat from the engine is an important ingredient in cool
> running, but equally important, especially with the hard top, is cool air
> coming in from the front of the car into the cockpit passenger side. Haven't
> seen
> this suggestion for awhile, but for long-distance travel in the past, I've
> had enormous success by buying a clothes drying corrugated heating duct
> (plastic or aluminum foil) about six feet long. Then, remove the panel in the
> passenger footwell that blocks the firewall hole for the right-hand side
> steering column. (it just unscrews). Run the duct from the front grille
> through
> the engine compartment to that hole and use copious amounts of duct tape at
> both ends to tape it in place.
> You won't believe the difference on the passenger side, with cool air
> blowing directly into the footwell. Once you arrive, the mod can easily be
> reversed for show, and then re-installed before driving hom.
> 
> Travel safe.
> Gary

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