Robert, look on pages 54-57...
http://www.vintageair.com/catalog.asp
Robert, look on pages 54-57...
http://www.vintageair.com/catalog.asp
56 Nomad, Ramjet 502, Viper 6-speed T56, C4 Corvette front and rear suspension
Other vehicles:
56 Chevy 2-door BelAir sedan
56 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
57 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
1962 327/340HP Corvette
1961 Willys CJ3B Jeep
2001 Porsche Boxster S
2003 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD Duramax
2019 GMC Sierra Denali Duramax
These guys have several styles also,
http://www.oldairproducts.com/catalo...120132055.html
First, thanks to all for their input on dash vents. I'll have to agree that these shoebox cars lend themselves more to curves, but given the long, flat, rectangular mounting surface in the center of the dash, it seemed that two round vents would not begin to fill the void. Thus we were leaning toward the rectangular vents to fill the space. Dana wanted to keep the outside vents round, and mount below in the factory location. So these are the ones decided on, Vintage Air pieces...
for the corner locations.....
for the center of the dash.......
Of course, something told me to keep looking, and as someone had suggested to do the Google image search on "dash vents", I skipped the catalogs this time and looked at installed vents. Then it hit me, how could I have not seen this before.....
Three wide in the round vents vs. only two did a better job of filling out the dash and would give us matching vents all around. So, with only two round on order (and two rectangular that will likely go back), we plan to see how "tight" these 2-5/8 round bezels look on a 2-3/4 high flat area, and make the final decision from there.. The saga continues..
Now with the dash seams all welded and waiting for gauges to be delivered, the moment I've been dreading. Installing the Rocky Hinge fuel "door". First thing noticed was that some of the holes on the weld-in mounting plate were off by half a hole..
So Kyle cut out a fresh piece of 14 ga crs to make a new one, a bit oversized to trim later. Used some transfer punches to get the bolt holes lined up a bit better on our version of the weld-in plate..
Attachment screws fitting better already....
To provide the proper "pressed" countersink, we broke out the tubing flare kit...
Redneck press...
Our lower "die" was a 1/2-13 nut, centered over the hole, perimeter marked, and then taped in place before locating this into the press. Hey, it wasn't pretty, but it worked!
Some trimming of the hole to provide room for the weld-in mounting plate....
Test fit of the tail light housing showed the opening was a bit wide, especially to the inside towards the tailgate. So some glancing blows with too large a hammer provided a bit of stretch in this inner valley to persuade the panel over to the left, tightening up the opening....
A bit better here, but more tweaking will be needed on the outside before the mounting plate gets welded in place..
Received a couple of care packages today, first was some of the tailgate hinge trim rings, shown here after Kyle media blasted them. So to all the guys that were watching the ebay auction for these, sorry..
Next, we got our AC vent samples in.. Here is the test fit with tape... Only have two of the round ones to show, but if we go with these there will be three in a row here in the center of the dash.
Any thoughts on the vents now with them mocked up?
Then Kyle tried his hand at block sanding epoxy on the inside of the hood..
Very nice, thanks for the info and sorry you are not in my state!
These would be right up your alley,
Bill 1957-427-177-6-410
Robert, FWIW I think I like the round ones over the rectangular ones. The only thing is they look like they're too big for the width of the dash area.
I gotta figure out what to do with my vents too.
Here's one I'm considering to match my door handles and lights....
http://www.claytonmachine.com/produc...tical-ac-vent/
Last edited by chevynut; 05-01-2015 at 02:35 PM.
56 Nomad, Ramjet 502, Viper 6-speed T56, C4 Corvette front and rear suspension
Other vehicles:
56 Chevy 2-door BelAir sedan
56 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
57 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
1962 327/340HP Corvette
1961 Willys CJ3B Jeep
2001 Porsche Boxster S
2003 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD Duramax
2019 GMC Sierra Denali Duramax
Round ones or the ones you are showing Laszlo
Sid
1955 2 DR Post
1937 Chevy Coupe
2023 Ford Super Duty F350 TREMOR
2019 Corvette Z06
1955 Chevy Nomad
1935 Ford 2dr Slant back I have 4
Went to a metal shaping workshop this past weekend, and just in case we needed a project to tackle, I took along one of the round vents so I could make some "buckets" as an option for mounting them in the lower outside corners of the dash. To prevent scratching, I covered the chrome with painters tape. As it turned out, we had plenty of other projects going on, and I never got to the vents. Removing the tape when we got home resulted in this:
So be forewarned, don't use tape to protect the chrome on the plastic vents from Vintage Air.
Also made a Xerox copy of the vents to be able to lay them out and test a pattern before cutting any holes.
Thanks to all for the input on vent selection. Here is the 5 round pattern that the owner has decided on...
that's a lot of vents.
ARMY NAM VET, very proud!
56 210 4dr
drive and enjoy them while you work on them, life is to short.