Want to run factory looking firewall and heater hose location with Vintage Air kit? Cheap DIY mod 

Great idea! You should share this with Vintage Air! I love the idea of having the factory look of the original heater box. Vintage Air should make this an option for their system. They could have built it this way.

Love the outside the "box" thinking - awesome.

You are a genius my friend l love the fact that you don't have to cut out nothing original great job

Very impressive. Looking forward to the finished install. 👍

Morning all I pulled the factory ac off my74 Pontiac when I replaced the heater cores couple of years ago. I wish I'd had your knowledge when I tried to put the dash and assorted goodies back where they belonged. Anyway after two days of inventing new words about engineers who put stuff where a guy can't get at it it was back together and worked. It put me in the correct frame of mind to do an oil pump on my 04 GMC. No fear Jon, it's just more parts to r and r. Fourty degrees was great Saps running. Those shark bites are really great.

I’m about to get a 67 and learning as much as possible, it’s a numbers matching and not far from stock on body etc. this is an awesome find 👍🏻

That’s really cool now and will be even more when done. Nice job

Great mod! That’s way better than modifying the firewall and loosing the factory look. Nice and clean!

Amazing video as always! Also the outro music was 🔥

On the large tube that you created a retention bead with a bump of solder. You could create a better retention bead. By placing a ring of solid copper around the tube. Secured with solder. Perhaps 18 gauge wite or so.

That is some pretty slick work. I love that it will be hidden and looks very similar to the OG Firebird. Keep up the great work and i cant wait to see whats next on this AC install. you are giving me some great tips for when I install mine.

nice work! thanks for sharing.

Love the ending great project 69 bird 🐦

Nice video! Now i feel like i´ve shouldn´t have sold my bird.. damn..

Possibly could have done the same thing using AN fittings with NPT ends on them. Have a 70 and 77 I'm going to do something similar with as I don't want to mess with the kick panels either.

I love your channel and the way you present all your info. I am wondering if you may have introduced a future problem for yourself when you used the compressed air to "blow out" any debris (EG: copper fragments) after you first cut the tubing off. Then again after you deburred the ends. You may have blown some copper pieces into the unit, which may someday go into the valve and/or other areas. Again, this is just a thought that came to mind when I watched this video. Did you insert some sort of blocker before you did that, like a small piece of rag or paper towel? About 2 years ago, I purchased a 100% original 68 Firebird 400. It has some rust around the wheel well areas, and some on the passenger rear rocker panel, down where it meets the inner rear quarter door jamb pillar, but the whole car is not too bad at all. I started working on it and then found that I was dedicating all my time to it and neglecting to finish all my other home repair projects around the house I had to do. So I stopped working on it, finished all the home repair projects, and am now ready to resume working on it. I am anxious to work on this ol' bird. I've been watching your channel for that long and getting more enthused after every video. I know I can do this in my home garage too. I am looking for some sort of "sequence" recommendations on this teardown and restore. I purchased every book and CD I could get my hands, to get all the info I could. My high-level plans are to tear it down completely and then go have it media blasted and then epoxy primed. Then I'll tackle all the repair areas. Any helpful info and/or recommendations you can pass onto me would be greatly appreciated. Please, please, please, reach out to me off-line. I am in the Phoenix, AZ area. A few miles from your friend over at Arrowhead Garage. And,,, thank you for giving me hope on doing this.

I am waiting on my Vintage Air kit to arrive for my 68 convertible and I am thinking of doing this. Is there a reason that you cant just run all heater hose the same way you ran the copper?

I wonder if you could use adapters and PEX tubing instead of cutting off the vintage air fittings. Prob can't bend that tight of a radius with PEX. So does the Vin air unit have a built-in heater core? Thanks for another great vid!

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Hot stuff !! , Nah. ,that's. cool

What size heater hoses are you planning to use? Thinking 5/8" and 3/4" hose will be too big for those 1/2" pipes