Race car defroster

[jlevie]

The dash bar of a roll cage pretty much disables the stock defroster. RainX, a rag on a stick, etc., isn't a very satisfactory substitute in my opinion. I made up a replacement for my new Spec E30 that won't work quite as good as the stock system, but it should be better than the alternatives.

[SlapDash]

Nice work!

Just in time too, as I'm just about to build my rally car. This will come in handy.

If you have them, could you post a few shots (or PM me) of other completed E30 racing dash shots? I'm trying to figure out where to put things. Because it's a rally car, it has to pass state inspection, so it must retain directionals, high beam switches, horns, etc.

Again, nice work!

[jlevie]

I'll post a picture of the interior when I reinstall the dash, the gages, and switches. My car is still pretty much street legal. It has headlights, turn signals, wipers. It doesn't have a horn, but that can easily be done.

[etxxz]

i hammered the f*** out of mine to get it out of there. little did i know i was going to see 26degrees in south florida this year..

[5KWattson]

lol, my friend pulled his hvac on his DD...it gets 28 here in the winter

[Tom Olsson]

We solved the problem on my car by cutting a hole in the HVAC housing, and sliding the knee-bar through it before welding it in. Worked in my car, as the knee bar went through about where the A/C condenser was. Heater's still in place, but we tossed the stock plumbing and fabbed a manual valve in the engine bay.

It was worth the effort, as we race in the rain a lot up here in the NW.

[moatilliatta]

There was just a thread about 2 weeks ago on BFC about this, They had some pretty good ideas.