Factory air conditioning/Restoration

[Original Poster]

Original post......

[neilk]

I have factory AC in my '73. The vents look kind of similar, but in my car, I have the stock ashtray instead of the nicely integrated one pictured.

Edit: Actually check out the vents for sale here

[WHCJr72S]

My car has factory Air Conditioning. It has a front mounted condenser that includes a fan that blows air through it. The body has to be modified for the fan. The factory air conditioner has a turn nob on both sides of the ash tray. Also I have the original window sticker and it shows the AC with a factory code. I will soon be upgrading the hoses to the barrier type. There is at lease one make of dealer added air conditioner. I believe that it does not have a front mounted condenser.

[WHCJr72S]

That is a factory Behr Air Conditioner evaporator. You should have a condenser under the front trunk area and one in the grill above the engine. Originally there was a York compressor mounted on the passenger side of the engine.

[super9064]

I know this is a long shot, but is anyone making a retro fit AC kit to add air to a early 911? My car is like a oven here in Maryland in the summer.

[tfmcmahon]

Here`s what my factory air vents look like in my 73E and what the condensor and lines look like in the engine area.Tom

[orange911]

In the last 4 years of studying the factory A/c systems for early 911s, I have never seen the one in the first picture. I do recognize that the individual vents are identical to the ones in my setup, but it is a separate piece under the knee pads (as all other factory units were that I have seen). The one in this photo is integrated as one piece, and I must say looks damn good. Was this a custom setup????

Olin

[jcarpio]

Don't think it's custom, see this website:
http://members.aol.com/porshalaka/De...iterature.html

It looks like it was featured in the 1969 options book...great site, by the way.

[JackOlsen]

The AC in post #1 is dealer-installed. The AC in post #8 is the factory-installed. It looks like it should be the opposite, doesn't it?

(If I'm wrong, of course, I hope someone will correct me.)

Factory AC also has the front cut-out for the condenser and blower. The dealer AC is often characterized by some vicious hole-punching in and around the sheet metal of the smuggler's trunk.

As I understand it, it was cheaper for Porsche to ship the cars and the (dealer-installed) AC components to the United States separately, because of import tariff laws in the seventies. But that might be wrong, too.

[sithot]

Correct on all counts.

Here is one example of vicious hole cutting. The one for the evaporator was even worse.

Best,

Tom