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has anyone kept a/c with a v8 swap?

I would like to know too, I keep all the parts for mine when I did the swap

I have kept all the factory parts that came with mine . The evaporator and heater is still in mine . As is the electrical for the compressor . I need a custom fan shroud and a few fittings as i have the compressor . My plan was to run a fuel pump boss style low compressor mount and eventually have it functional . I kept the rear glass also , as some day i may put a stock Vortec 1st gen and 700r4 in it with a 3.70 gear . Everything on mine is stock ( dash , gauges , heater controls , steering wheel ) except the seat and shifter .

Well we all saved our parts.So i guess we will all have to try and then put our info in to maybe help eachother

I've done several mini trucks with air. The only ones you'd have problem with are the ones where the heater, ac are in a box that sticks out into the engine compartmen.
Mount you're compressor where you'd like, the receiver dryer on a fender and the condenser in front of part of the radiator. Run the hoses into the cab on the pass side and hook them to the evap. Cooling is the trick part.

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In regards to your running a/c on a sbc-Luv engine swap, I have been using the same set up for years. It is a Sanden 508 compressor, custom made hoses and condenser but it uses all of the stock controls and works very well. I like to use the custom brackets made by AlterStart in Dallas TX. These are available direct from them or on e-bay from several other suppliers.
If you would like pictures of my installations please feel free to contact me at pinkertondusty@aol.com and I can e-mail them to you.

dp

Second message on a/c-V8 swaps,
In regards to keeping the engine cool with a/c, please review the messages I have left suggestiing the useage of a stock 67-70 HD Mustang radiator for your V8 swap. I've been running one for years here is So Cal and never overheated!
This is one of the easiest and most efficient radiators I have ever used, cheap too.

dp

i have a 22x19 aluminum radiator for mine

Wow! 22 X 19", that should keep anything cool, where did you buy it, how much?
thx dusty

i'd be interested in some pics of your setup scjconv

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Be glad to send you some pics of my SCJ conv, but I will have to send them e-mail since I cannot seem to get the gist of posting pictures on here. Contact me at pinkertondusty@aol.com and I can send them. Also have a lot of LUV sbc pictures in case you interested?
dusty

Goto www.photobucket.com/v8luv There you will see a V8 luv using a 19" x 22" radiator without excessively cutting up the radiator core support. Hardest part of air is mounting the compressor. We allways put the alt on the right side and the air comp on the left. Can be seen in TRUCKIN magazine June 1978 page 16.

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Those are really good pictures, especially when you consider they are over 30 years old!! Wow, to be back in those years again and know what we know now!!! About that time I sold a beautiful very low mileage 70 Plymouth GTX with a 440-six pac!
I can't even buy one carburetor for what I sold that car for!!
Plus I would have bought a whole bunch of 78-80 Luvs and kept them!!!

dp

I really wish I knew how to use photo bucket, but I am so dumb I don't have any idea what they are talking about, URl, STP, WD40, whatever! Just can't get it!!

dp

The pictures on photobucket which are in color are only about two years old. The B/W are over 30 years old. We started selling complete Mini Truck V8 conversions kits around early 1974. There are quite a few magazine articles back then. Try to find a copy of STREET RODDER October 1977 page 56. Actually there isn't a lot new in doing these swaps. Cutting was at a minimum, if any then and the engine mounting adapters were bolt in. V8 LUV could be done in a long weekend, given you had all the pieces per instructions.

Interesting on the 6 pack car. It would take a small book to list all the cars I've had and sold for little money. Almost cry when I see some of them sell for over 100,000 on Barret Jackson, however it does prove the old axiom that there are more people with money than intelligence.

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i got it from summit i think i paid $150.00 give or take alittle

Sorry I haven't been online in awhile I will post pics this weekend if possible