Here's yet another twist on an A/C installation - Classic Auto Air said they'd rebuild a 50-year-old add-on A/C system for me. I have picked up a couple underdash units, and bought a parts car that had an aftermarket air conditioning bracket and compressor. The condensor, dryer and hoses I will buy new. So I could go with the big old power-sucking beast of a 50-yr-old a/c compressor underhood to keep everything contemporary, or choose to have a modern, lighter, more efficient Sanden compressor on the same bracket with an adaptor. I already have the add-on crank pulley from an early Hemi - which MAY (not 100% certain here) the same one that was used on aftermarket A/C applications on 413s & 440s. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on this point!) Either way, in the car I'll have a cool old chromey unit with large round vents under the dash. John Spiers Still 90F in Florida ________________________________ From: Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: BARJAM300@xxxxxxx; Intl 300 <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 6:07:49 PM Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 1957 Air conditioning The congregation is polled. What a ton of great info and advice from all of you. I'm still not fully decided on which way to go, but I won't be doing it blindly now. Jim Bartuska's '59 setup sounds like it may be the smart thing to go with if I decide to go factory. I realize I'd have to have my passenger head drilled and tapped. (and maybe I should have my own head drilled and tapped for even considering this); but if that were the greatest obstacle, I'm not deterred yet. Even though I don't have an original A/C car, I went out and checked it for the holes anyway (yes, both heads). There's a pretty long story between the lines here, but, in short, I blew up the original engine pretty badly 20 minutes after I first bought the car in September of 1962. So a junkyard 300 engine was put in to replace that one, and I now hoped that it may have come from an A/C car - but, alas, it was not to be. The aftermarket setup still has a lot of appeal for installation cost and ease. It just will look like the add-on equipment that it is; and I love to lift the hood and be able to say "Yep, this is a factory-built hot rod and this is how it actually came out of the showroom". I'm still thinking ------------ --------- -- Thanks again to all, Keith Boonstra - BARJAM300@aol. com wrote: > Keith, > Based on Burt's email maybe I can help you out. I have most of a '59 > New Yorker A/C system I took out of a parts car in 1971. If you are > interested, I'll check out what I have upstairs in the barn. > > Jim Bartuska > > In a message dated 10/27/2009 1:38:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > kboonstra@zeegroup. com writes: > > > > OK Folks, our '57 300C has sat in the barn way too much in the > summers just because I'm too spoiled rotten to ride around without > A/C anymore in a car that doesn't have a flip top. And besides > that, it needed a few improvements that are long overdue. > > After owning it now (for the second time) for 26 years, I'm > finally taking care of a lot of the things I should have been > doing right along. I'm putting in seat belts, re-installing > correct carbs, finally putting on that right side mirror, fixing > up the armrests, and maybe I'll throw a set of WW radials on it so > it can safely hit the road. > > So now I would also like to install a complete original A/C > system, and I don't know where to start. Who out there might have > everything I'm going to need to accomplish this (both the parts > and the knowledge)? I know this won't be cheap, but in my view it > will add that much long term value to the car. And it will add > immensely to our pleasure in heading halfway across the country > for a meet. > > Who's got parts or ideas for a starting point? Your thoughts? > > Many thanks, > Keith Boonstra > Holland, Michigan > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Chrysler300-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Chrysler300-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/