[Healeys] Air Conditioning Installation - BJ8

[Jonas Payne]

I’m currently installing a “Nostalgic Air” system in my 1971 TR6 (it is a re-pop of the dealer installed kit with modern “guts”).  I live in Las Vegas and want to get a couple more months of driving in per year.

 

I looked at the Vintage Air Kit as well  but ultimately wanted to keep a stock appearance.

 

At the end of the day, all these systems work the same way and are of similar size.  

 

By the time I’m done (this weekend) I’ll have about 10 hours in it.  

 

You’ll likely have more because you’ll need to fab your own compressor bracket, attachments and will need to come up with another pulley for the compressor.  Couldn’t be easier.

 

If you’d like, I can send photos of mine – at the end of the day, the application to a TR6 and a big Healey will have more in common than not.

 

 

 

Jonas Payne

PBR Consulting Services, LLC

702.882.6711

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of R. Lindsay
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 11:16 AM
To: Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] Air Conditioning Installation - BJ8

 

Now that I live in Florida, I am considering installing AC in my BJ8.  To no one’s surprise, the heat/humidity is brutal in the summer and makes driving in traffic almost unbearable!  (OK, I’m soft)

 

I’d like to do it myself and Vintage Air seems to have a nice system that appears to be fairly easy to install.  I know several members have done this and I’d love to “talk” with someone who’s been through it before with an Austin Healey or someone that can refer me to a web site that would help me anticipate what I’m getting myself into.  I’ve a number of questions from simple, “Should I pull the engine?”, to more difficult, “ Do I need to modify my wiring?”, and every thing in between.  The car has been converted to negative ground already so, I’ve got that behind me.

 

Thank you for your insights.


Price Lindsay

 

67 BJ8

 

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