Climate Control - Keep it or Scrap it?

[DSMsamurai666]

I just removed all the AC stuff from under the hood of my 92' GSX because I never use AC and the system wasn't charged anyways. I was toying with the notion of removing all the rest of the climate control stuff from the car - heater core assembly, evaporator, blower, air ducts, even the selector thing behind the knobs in the dash (I've always wanted to replace those knobs with gauges). Someday my car will be fully built for track use and probably won't see the street after I'm done with it. I never use heat or AC as it is. I was just wondering if there's any good reason to keep any of the parts I listed on the car, other than for the sake of having heat and AC of course. Otherwise I'm probably going to gut it all out.

 

[allthrottle]

If you don't have a need for those comforts, you can get rid of them. The heater hoses can be re-routed and/or capped. None of the wiring in the climate control is connected to or powers anything that is a necessity. I'd probably keep the center console and climate trim intact and use the space for gauges though

 

[turboglenn]

If you'll ever track race the car (road course) there's one good reason to leave in SOME of it... remove all you want, but leave a direct line from the heater core blower duct to the windshield and have it set on pulling fresh air from the cowl instead of recirculating from the cockpit. Foggy glass can be a nightmare at the track if you're running in the rain. Even with the open vents and such that some cars have (depends if their class mandates it) some of them still have trouble with fogging of the window so we leave the hot/cold selector and usually just wire an ON/OFF for the blower motor, but these are all track cars only, so obviously the less weight the better, but leaving yourself a clear windshield is worth the 7-10 extra LBS of lines, ducts and coolant... As for the AC compressor, it's core, condenser, collector/dryer and lines...remove it if you don't' want it!

Personally my car's power is limited to what it can do while running the AC in a hot Nebraska day so you can guess I'm a person of creature comforts I completely redesigned and lengthened my IC pipes a year ago to get my AC back after loosing it due to poor cooling from slim-line fans in DD situations with the AC on

 

[sarge281]

Glenn, do you have a thinner radiator, like the Fluidyne? Oh, and what fans were you running?

 

[GDNF2ET]

If your car starts to run hot for any reason, turning on the heat will get those temps back down..

 

[IEdroStarI]

id say get rid of all that crap!! if you have heating issues i would either do what GD says or hook your fans up to a switch