65 Single Cab revival. Purist You may want to stay away..

[Neonist]

Mother In Law coming for a few days so I had to move these out of the back room..

[Neonist]

This is the AC condenser and one of the intercooler heat exchangers. These will be covered by the backside of the air ductwork.

A nice shot of the under side

Another shot of the underside and the Oil pan.

[chrisflstf]

Looks good, how soon before U can drive it?

[Neonist]

[BarryL]

[Neonist]

[Neonist]

This is my replacement for the factory defroster tube. This pipe has been split in half and a divider welded in so that both air for the dash vents and defrost ducts can be fed from the VintageAir unit. On the underside the ductwork moves thru an cavity built into the floor.

[tootype2crazy]

Very very cool project. Can I ask where you sourced that bevel box for your steering set up? I'm thinking about doing something similar on my sc and can't find a good option.
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air-cooled or nothing for me
1978 Sunroof Deluxe Bus (daily driver)
1978 Transporter (mom's, making into a camper)
1970 Single Cab 2.1 turbo/EFI 6 Rib, 78 front beam, vanagon backing plates on rear (project)
2001 GTI VR6 (wife's)

[Neonist]

[swharris]

[Neonist]

[swharris]

[Pacmanfever]

Amazing fabrication and problem solving displayed, looking forward to seeing it all finished.

[rustybus]

The engineering on this thing is badass! I'm a purist for the most part, but appreciate a good custom when it is made from something that is already messed up, not a good original paint car, and that was exactly the case here, nice job taking a parts car and making something cool. I have a bunch of bus parts, an SVX engine, and an idea for what I'd like to build out of it all, but it won't be anything like this, that's for sure and at the snail's pace I work at, best case scenario won't be done in the next decade. But who knows, threads like this inspire me to get out and work on stuff. I just got a bus back on the road in two weeks that had been parked for over 20 years. Went through all the stock systems on that, so maybe there is hope.

Can't wait to see this on the road. If you make it to Arizona shoot me a message, I'd love to shoot a feature on this.

Richard
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www.rustybus.com www.shastasnowtrip.com

[Neonist]

Wiring is so tedious. So the engine component is all finished as well as all the plumbing and mechanicals on the engine. Im hopeful that the rest of the truck goes smoothly.

Thank you all for the comments!!

[Neonist]

With the addition of A/C I don't need the overhead fresh air system. I also didn't want to cut into the dash of this truck as it is one of the very few parts that was salvageable from the original truck. I utilized the area in the overhead fresh air system to build a custom LCD screen that will provide me with the gauges I wasn't going to be able to put in the dash. Below is what the display will show. The Haltech ECU has an interface that will push data onto this image and animate this gauge. I will post a video up once I have it up and going.

[Neonist]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2252956788053493&id=192498610765998

Its started!!

[Black hound]

Looks and sounds epic sir! 10 out of 10 for this build.

[matthew henricks]

Nice.

[rustybus]