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-----Original Message-----
From Frank Clarici <spritenut at Exit109.com>
To: Larry Cogan <woodrat@spacey.net>
Cc: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@sympatico.ca>; spridget list
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: August 17, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Miata question/air conditioning LBC
>Larry Cogan wrote:
>>
>> OK, here goes..... My significant other has been aggrivating me about
>> air conditioning one of the LBCs. Probably she would like the 70
>> Midget for that purpose (it wears a semi permanent hardtop). What has
>> undone me is in that here in central Florida one of the ads that runs
>> frequently is, "we can air condition anything with an engine". I have
>> told her, despite the ads, it cant be done. So as a compromise I will
>> put it on the list....for some reason she believes that the
>> "collective wisdom" of the list far exceeds mine....go figure. Has
>> anyone ever owned or even seen a Midget with AC? Say it aint so,
>
>Not a Midget but a 1275 powered Austin A40.
>I put AC in it last summer. The car is basically a Sprite with a
>permanant hardtop. (Power windows too)
>I used a set up off an Austin Marina, made some minor mods to the
>bracket, ran the hoses thru the steering wheel column hole on the right
>hand side, mounted the evaporater under the dash and I even have a Lucas
>Accessory switch panel for it.
>It works, It gets really cold too.
>I ran the compressor belt off what was the air pump pulley on the water
>pump.
>I know it should run off the crank but hey it was handy, empty, and it
>works.
>2 vents are all you need.
>Don't say it can NOT be done. I can drop this in any Sprite in a few
>hours.
>It took me all day to fit it to the A40 but now I am expierienced ;)
>
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>The bug in the rice bowl
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>
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