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yeah its not the smallest!

First things first, I wanted to sus out all the wiring and controls to see how they all went together, so I did a little test, man it pumps some air! and there are 25 clicks from the lowest speed setting to flat out!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vvA_Nt5wA[/youtube]

With that sorted it was time to cut into the dash and make this behemoth fit! Its not perfect at the moment, i'd like to get it a bit higher if I can, but generally its up under the dash and workable, but it is going to require the engine cover to be lower, which is not a problem, there was approx. 120-140mm of air gap between the top of the motor and the engine cover, so i'll re-design that as some stage.

I also got a Y piece from Bunnings plumbing section which is the perfect size for the flexible duct to slot into (its mounted behind the vice grips in the picture), so that has connected up the centre and passenger side factory window demister vents to one fitting of the A/C unit, and the second fitting will be dedicated to the driver side vent, once I get some more duct ... my theory is if the two vents out of the A/C unit blow the same pressure it will hopefully mean slightly more air out the driver side vent which is the one you want to work the best, it will also have a straight shot into the vent from the A/C unit, whereas the centre/passenger side ones turn.
And with the dash roughly sat back in place, looks like the 4 holes for the dash facing vents will be pretty easy to setup with the location of the outlets in the centre of the VR/VS dash and I have two eyeball vents on order for the ends of the dash.

hahahah that's what I'm hoping for

Got all the rest of the bits, now to make them all fit into the Bedford
Missus is doing stuff most of the weekend, so theres going to be a lot of time spent in the shed this weekend

Made some good progress yesterday on the condenser, I think everything is going to just fit! ... although I'm not so sure about the A/C pump
I will need to get a 45 degree fitting for the bottom A/C connection on the condenser but other wise I think it will be fine.
There is more tweaking to do but there is about 5mm gap here, and i''ll trim the snout of the water pump for good measure.

On my old WB ute, I copied the VT alternator bracket and mounted the AC compressor where the alternator would usually fit. Ran the belt straight from the crank pulley to the compressor and had an idler pulley in there to tension the belt.

And used a Commodore bracket to mount the alternator on the right hand side head. Didn’t have power steering to worry about though, but kept it all neat at least and allowed the AC pump to sit underneath the standard manifold.

i've had a bit of a look at it today, theres enough room on the driver side to mount it, its just making sure it clears the steering rack while keeping it as far from the exhaust as I can, hopefully should be workable

was that a new tig welder I saw ?

yeah sure is jenko, got it a few weeks ago!