My take on the FFR / Vintage Air Heater

[Gumball]

Here's a picture of my FFR / Vintage Air heater installed. To give it just a bit extra "vintage" look, I added a couple of stickers from Moss Motors - from their MG catalog.

Moss and the various other British car restoration places are a treasure trove of parts and accessories that will make your build a bit unique and evoke some of that "AC Cars" spirit.

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[Gumball]

TTT - Here's my first "how-to" that I posted with the forum way back in April 2011. Hopes this helps someone spruce up their engine bay a bit.

To add to the period-correct look, I found an original heater knob and adapted it to the switch / control for the FFR supplied heater. Learn about that here..... http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showthread.php?5670-Original-quot-Fan-quot-Knob-for-FFR-Vintage-Air-Heater-Control


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[boat737]

I am in the process of adding the Vintage Air heater. I have a question on the wiring. I found the Ron Francis brown wire, a 20A fuse circuit, that is switched, I'm pretty sure. The Vintage Air comes with a 30A breaker. How do I hook up the heater so that it is switched through the ignition switch? I assume that I don't want to connect the blue VA 30A wire to the RF 20A brown wire. I take it that the RF harness was figuring on the heater being a 20A unit. Maybe it is, but that 30A Breaker has me confused. I think the VA folks had their blue 30A wire going to a hot feed. Any one else run into that problem?

[Al_C]

What I have learned about the heater so far... it's different than the template. The instructions suggest checking the heater core against the template before you cut out the firewall. Good idea. The template isn't even close. Perhaps it's "manufacturing irregularities"; perhaps they changed vendors. As suggested in the instructions, I'm cutting out the holes for the core before I install the firewall. I made a new template and hope to get that little cutting, drilling, and riveting project done this weekend.