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Originally Posted by ZeGermanHam

Today's task was finding a mounting solution for the Vintage Air heater valve. The Vintage Air instructions just have the heater valve connected to the hose and not actually mounted to the car anywhere. The instructions also route the heater hose all the way through the inside of the fender and then it takes a u-turn and heads back toward the firewall again to connect with the rear of the cylinder head. That's a ton of extra hose cluttering up the engine bay...

My solution was to mount the heater valve to the firewall. I will use a 90-degree elbow where the heater hose exits through the cowl into the engine bay, connect it to the heater valve, then continue straight across the firewall to connect with the rear of the cylinder head. It will be much less cluttered this way.

But to mount the heater valve to the firewall, I needed to fab up another bracket. Out comes the angle grinder and cutoff wheel again. Here is my DIY bracket after I've already cut it out of a larger piece of flat aluminum, bent it 90-degrees in a bench vise, and got started with drilling mounting holes, etc.


Heater valve & bracket assembly now mounted to firewall. It should fade into the background pretty well once everything else is installed in the engine bay.

I really wish you had posted this BEFORE I struggled with mine! This looks 100% better than the recommended location. May have to look into changing mine, crap
Mike Pearson