Hello
I have a 72 corvette with AC and I bought a Vintage Air Corvette Gen-IV 1968-1976 system.
My question is: in the wiper tunnel in the right hand side there is a plastic door that operate with small actuator, I don't see anything in the kit that tell me what to do with that.
You can see in the attached picture the plastic door with the small actuator.



Thanks
Avner

 

that's the recirculate mechanism for "max" cooling of the oem a/c. if you want, remove it, glass in the opening, and sell to someone that needs it to restore to an original system. otherwise, just disconnect the vaccum lines and the flapper door will remain closed, and there won't be any air movement.

 

After I restored it and made new brackets now you tell me
I think I will leave it, I asked VA tech about that and they don't know/understand what I'm talking about, they want more pic's.
I think they need to update the kit for the AC cars.
Thanks
Avner

 

i was wondering why that flapper looked so new.

 

Dont seal it closed, as the water entering the wiper area will stay there and eventually will generate some rust/corrosion problems very soon. Instead, just remove it all together and just seal off the other door under neath (the one inside the cabin, behind the passenger side kick panel), that way you'll have a fully sealed cabin (V/A system will not provide a fresh air capabilities anyway), and still all the water entering the wipers area will drain all the way out through the sides of the firewall.

V/A evaporator is a real self contained system, and you wont need ANY of the stock A/C component except maybe the dash vents.

 

I will leave it like that, VA provide a seal plates for the kick panel + the fan hole.
I'm not worry from rust all the metal parts was galvanized and the car will not see the rain again.