Lyndwood

dumb question but I just deleted my ac from my 74 permanently as it is a cruiser/non original fun car. anyway I am getting ready to order a new seal kit for the radiator/rad support & hood area and also wanted to buy new upper & lower rad hose's. they list upper & lower hose's for 74's with ac or without ac...what the difference are they formed or bent different and should I stay with the type I had in the car when it had AC or go to the non-ac hose version?

MelWff

I looked at two corvette vendor sites, Willcox and Ecklers and neither one of them shows a choice of radiator hoses between AC and non-AC. Where are you looking for your hoses?

71 Green 454

The only difference for the upper radiator hose should be if it's a SB or BB.

Lyndwood

zips corvette
http://www.zip-corvette.com/68-82-c3...year/1974.html

I guess one is factory replacement, one is generic and not sure of the other one, but the bends look different?

7T1vette

The hose selection is based on the radiator that you have. A/C cars got different radiators.

Did you also change the radiator in your car? No? Then buy the hoses for an A/C car (which is what you still have...but without the A/C).