INSTALLING A/C IN YOUR ‘A' BODY! PART ONE: UNDER THE HOOD
HOT CARS|Vol 5, Issue No.1, Fall 2020
Since I’m still waiting for the QA1 lower control arms to come in, we’ll have to hold off on doing the front suspension until later. In the meantime let’s get our Vintage Air (VA) A/C installed on our project car!
INSTALLING A/C IN YOUR ‘A' BODY! PART ONE: UNDER THE HOOD

The VA kit comes with everything you need to install A/C in your A body ‘68 Chevelle or El Camino (see pic to your right).

It was suggested that we present the installation in two parts. The first part being the under the hood installation and the second part being the under the dash installation. Since the “under the dash” is going to require removing the dash, we’ll save that for next time because it means we will be installing our Dakota Digital Dash and Custom Auto Sound stereo at the same time.

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