I was removing the AC on my 83 TA today and I got the the firewall where the blower motor and evaporator (?) are and realized there's a big hole in the firewall, so apparently I can't remove these pieces of my AC if I want to have a blower motor for ventilation and whatnot. Has anyone removed AC and if so did you just leave this or what?

By the way I'm trying to figure out where to put my MSD Ignition Box, any suggestions would be great.

Any pictures on either topic would also help, Thanks.

 

Hmmm, you won't like it much, but I'll comment.

You have a "1 of 622" car, and you're sodomizing it. Do you have any clue how much what you're talking about reduces its value to anyone else? You're taking one of the finest cars of its day, one of the fastest cars GM made that year (second only to the HO Z28), and hacking the things out of it that make it a fine car.

Don't do it. Put the car back together right, make the air work, it's a vastly better car when it isn't full of 20 years of sweaty BO.

 

i'll comment as well.

did the a/c recently stop working? if not, i'm with rb here, put it back. the car is relatively rare. i'd fix it if it were me.

if it did quit working, you've got a couple options. you can repair what needs to be repaired, convert over to the new refrigerant (r-134a), etc.

if it quit working and you decide that you want to be rid of the a/c, make sure you get a non a/c heater box. the a/c box with nothing hooked up to it looks like complete ***.

 

I didn't know they made a non-AC heater box. Thanks for the info. I'm only taking the AC out temporarily, along with the motor. I'm taking that out, putting in a 350 and I'm going to clean up the L69 as it is all rusty. Then I'm going to get another car to play with and have the body and interior on the '83 fully restored, not that it's in bad shape it just has a few chips and stains. So that's the plan for that car.

Thanks

 

if its just a temp thing, you can leave the box thats in there on there.

instead of getting a AC delete box, i made my own fiberglass flat blower box.....

but anyhoo.... i would just leave it alone if its a temp thing.

if you just said it was a temp thing to get people off your back because its a "rare" car (heh. heh. heh.) and you just want some more room to work on the car:


1: spend money on non AC box. this leaves the heater/defrost working

2: hack it crap out of it, make a sheetmetal cover that goes over the hole. this makes it so it doesnt work at all.

3: cut your stock box partway across, then cover and make your AC box a custom non AC box... if you're good at fabbing stuff it will look nice. if not, then it will look like a rednecked sh!tbox

 

That sounds ALOT like what I'm doing with my '83 HO Camaro. My L69, however, was totally shot when I got it. It was running on maybe 5 cylinders, made about 3 or 4 different colors of smoke when It ran and ran like a dog (obviously). Now, its got a 350 in it, but sometime this summer I'm gonna get the L69 back from my cousin (who is holding it in his garage for me, untill I buy it back, as it was part payment for helping get the 350 in)

I take stuff off my car, BUT, I don't make the same mistake alot of people do... I keep EVERYTHING I take off the car (emitions stuff included). I will probably take the AC system off sometime this summer, as I never use it and it just gets in the way when working on it, BUT I am not going to just toss it like most people do. Everything that comes off with it (pulley, hoses, belt, etc) will all be put into its own box, like everything else, in my room. That way, if I ever feel the need, I can put it back on, get it recharged, and its good to go.

 

Just to restate what I've already said this car will be restored to stock in the next couple of years, I do realize the potential value of the car.

My AC hasn't worked since I have owned the car and they guy I bought it from said that there is a leak which couldn't be found by whoever checked it for him.

Don't worry I'm not going to leave the car in pieces for those of you worried about that it will eventually be all together again and then it will work right, but for now the AC doesn't work and I need to pull the engine out for restoration purposes.

 

i just left it there....may get around to taking it out someday or may not. anyway, heres a pic:



by the way, i have cleaned everything in there since that pic