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Fresh air vents above footboxes - queery
Hi,
Have only posted a few times here, so I hope i put this up in the right place. I have some originality questions, hoping folk here can help: On the original S/C cars, did they have 2, 1 or no freshair foot vents mounted above the footwells? Do the modern CSX cars have these (I'm guessing yes)? If present, where did the vent tubing terminate? I beleive the front side vents on the S/C cars were for brake ventilation, but used for footbox ventilation on road-going cars? I have some pics of a geniune 60s CSX rebuild, and i think i can see evidence of a foot vent part-broken on the drivers side. Looks like nothing on the passenger side, but maybe wrong. confused **), Kevin |
Hey Kevin, originality forum is probably a good place for this question. You have it figured already, street cars had 2 cable operated foot box vents with hose from a snorkel behind the front grills to the footbox flapper valve. Comp cars used the small grills at front as intakes also but had short hoses to brake ducts.
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Does anyone have any pics of the footbox vents on the original S/C? I would be really interested in duplicating the vent.
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Ron,
You beat me to the punch...... |
Excellent guys - thanks! dont want to spend another $150 on ventilation if it wasnt on the original. ;)
cheers, Kevin |
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The original street 427 did come with fresh air vents, as did some of the 427 race cars on the driver’s side only. Most 289's came with them on both pass and driver side.
The new 427's from Shelby don't normally come equipped with fresh air vents. This is mine I custom fabricated and also used a few Kirkham parts. Kirkham is the way to go if you want to do this set up. http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...sewithfan3.jpg http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...eventhose2.jpg http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...x/venthole.jpg http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...tandhose86.jpg http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...sidevent-1.jpg http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...nmycobra-1.jpg |
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As they say, "if its worth doing, it's worth doing right"! |
Cobra Restorers sells the vent controls as well as cables/knobs.
Larry |
Check ERA's website for pics/drawings/details. Ventilation to both footboxes has always been part of their engineering design. While they probably won't sell you the parts, you can at least see how it's supposed to look and operate.
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Thanks again. I meant £150 (pretty sure i can get the vent and cable for this here in the UK ;) ), but that was excluding the tubing. is the type of tubing important?
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I installed footbox vents and it makes the car so much more comfortable on hot summer days. I used bilge blowers and dust collector hose. to close them I used blast gates controlled by 2 choke cables. There are pics in my gallery.
Cheers Greg |
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