Providing a suitable compressor drive is the key to this Miura air conditioning system. Once this drive is accomplished, the rest of the system is quite easily designed and installed.
| 1) Engine compressor drive/compressor 2) Condensor and fan |
3) Evaporator, controls and fan 4) hoses, valves, filters, details |
| The drive for the compressor is
taken from the crank shaft by using the existing style starter/crank
gear set. The cover is heavily modified by carving out a niche between
the clutch and the starter gears to allow the mounting of a double
groove pulley on an extended starter gear shaft. This back side view of
the cover compares the differences between an early P400 cover
and a late P400SV with ac cover. Providing a suitable compressor drive is the key to this Miura air conditioning system. Once this drive is accomplished, the rest of the system is quite easily designed and installed. |
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| front
view of the early cover and a late AC cover show the addition of a "U"
shaped pocket to allow a pulley to be squeezed into a tight location. |
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