[DeTomaso] Air Con Down under

Tomas Gunnarsson guson at home.se
Fri Feb 4 12:30:01 EST 2011


Probably because by then the battery had been moved down below the floor.

Tomas

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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
[mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sent: den 4 februari 2011 18:15
To: Gary.Williamson at hartmann.info; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Air Con Down under


In a message dated 2/3/11 3:03:36 PM, Gary.Williamson at hartmann.info writes:


> Asa Jay - I've sent an email to Kirk enquiring about his Firewall
> reduction kit - this sounds like a useful thing to do while I'm organising
> the air con as I may eventually go RHD to make life driving around Sydney
> a little easier.
>
>>>The flat firewall kit is a really wonderful innovation.   Its principal
advantage for the driver is that (if ordered appropriately) it allows easy,
unfettered access to the engine compartment without tearing the whole
interior apart.   A large secondary benefit is that it allows the passenger
seat
to move fully to the rear, freeing up valuable room if you carry full-size
passengers (or, like me, occasionally ride as a passenger in your own car).


> >I've looked at the RHD conversion done by the local
> importers/Detomaso and am not sure I like the way they were done - a steel
> tube across from the brake padal to the orginal LHD master cylinders?
>
>>>Hokey in the extreme, in my opinion--and that's the way the factory
originally did it!   The RHD cars from the 1970s were all set up that way,
leading to imprecision and vague response, because the long shafts act like
torsion bars and twist under load.   The RHD late-model cars (GT5, GT5-S
etc.)
featured a mirror-image front trunk comparment and interior structure, with
a
normal pedal/booster arrangement.

Mike
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