As a silly question does anybody make a kit to delete the air conditioning and mount whatever motors and such need to be remounted and perhaps the sheet metal to cover it up?

 

Guru, are you wanting to delete your A/C in favor of a heat/defrost unit? If so it seems the easiest would be to get a heat only set up (including controller) from a salvage yard and fit it in. Note that the firewall hole is smaller for a heat only unit, so you'd need to fab a plate for the firewall. It's only been a year since I ripped mine out, so you'd think I'd remember. The fan attaches to the firewall & a door is used to send the air either through the evap or the heat exchanger. Hmmm, it might be possible to remove the evap side, plate over the hole, fix the air door, & plug the appropriate vac hoses. This might do waht you seem to want w/o junking everything. I am assuming you want the evap out of the engine compartment.

 

...I did this to my '75 coupe two years ago and it came out so nice, 99% of the people think it was originally a non A/C car.

...a '68-'79 A/C Corvette vs a non A/C Corvette are pretty different. Hard to type all the uniqueness of all those years to the others. I did all this when I put in a new crate motor and at the same time converting my '75 over to a 4spd car, so I basically had all the dash out to drop the steering column to change out the automatic vs manual pedal assemblies. On my '75, I changed out the original A/C controller unit for a non A/C one. Changed out the wiper switch A/C bezel for the non A/C one. Removed the original cabin side A/C Heater box for a non A/C Heater box. You CANNOT simply remove the engine side evap box and make this work that I'm aware of. The A/C evap box on the engine side mates with the A/C cabin side heater box-same with the non A/C engine side heater core cover with the non A/C cabin side heater box. I removed all my A/C stuff, then starting with the cabin side(remember my dash was mostly apart), installed a non A/C heater box(don't use a '68 non A/C box, will only work if doing this to a '68-it's all cable activated, not vacuum like '69-'79 is). Bolted it in as several of the studs use some of the same holes that the A/C heater box does. Once I had it in, I had to fabricate an "L" shaped sheet metal piece to fill in the area once taken up by the larger A/C housing opening. Then, I worked with the non A/C heater core engine side cover I bought from Zip to finish up all the fitment issues. Once I had these minor issues to deal will, I purchased a new non A/C heater core, installed it in the used non A/C heater box I installed, then installed the non A/C heater core cover. One minor issue is an A/C car has is ONE passengerside footwell fresh air door which is vacuum operated. A non A/C car will have a door on each side of the footwells operated by cables. I just removed the vacuum junk and neatly wired the door to be open full time. The years that had Astro Ventilation will have open vents behind the rear window(if coupe), whereas some A/C cars('71-'75?)will have the rear openings blocked in with plates. I just left mine in. All in all, I love what I did. Not an A/C person and I live in Ohio. How often do you really need A/C in a car in Ohio? If someone were to look superclose at my car and see it being a non A/C car, but noticing that it does not have the fresh air door sliders on the main console, plus the one small A/C ONLY vent above your right knee and a 5600 rpm tach instead of a non A/C 6000 tach for L-82, they might notice what I did. But, most people looking at 31yr old cars are clueless as to what they're looking at anyways. It's not that bad of a job, really it's just a bolt on(or bolt OFF change over) just like changing a car over from an automatic car to a four spd car. Damn, this is prolly the longest answer to a post I ever did-hope someone at least reads it.

 

I just want a window defroster. Everything else is pointless.

Thanks guys.

 

OK, what about something like this 1100btu, 12v system:

http://www.autobarn.net/heatdef.html

 

...f'k, wish I knew that yesterday...

 

With the exception of resale time. Lots of buyers want AC cars.

 

I removed the AC (didn't work, parts missing) and heater (don't need it in FL) and covered the hole in the firewall with a fiberglass plate.








The heater and AC is in a box and the next owner can reinstall if he/she wants to.... no permanent modifications were necessary to bolt the plate on....

 

Don't be it was very informative.

Thank you.

 

exactly what ive been looking for!

im building a custom sheet metal dash (yes with a nice cover) for my 80...and the AC/Heat will be deleted...awesome find!