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Reply to "Beck - Subaru Spyder under dash Heater Core ?"

@chines1 posted:

OK, here's rundown of some answers from all of the above questions:  if I missed something you want answered, just tag me in the reply and I'll look back here later

The Spyder heater core is the same as Joe's Speedster, I believe it's a Mojave unit, all self contained, compact and has a 2 speed fan.  Controls are hidden, as is the choke cable for the H valve. It can have dedicated defrost and defroster vents can be added to the spyder dash, and then it otherwise dumps heat to the cockpit.  Our spyder column has a plate along the back side for adding things like these controls, 12v outlet, USB plug, etc...

The cup holders in Joe's car are a semi-copy of the Santana cup holders, but 1) the Santana popped open and I didn't like that, so these have a sightly stronger catch to prevent that and most importantly 2) the santana cup holders were too deep for the speedster rockers, so we put it all into CAD and made the face plate over 1" thick to offset the cup holder to fit our space.  They are VERY expensive to make.  From memory they were $400 each (material and machine time), plus I had a grand or two into CAD time for the first batch.  We refer to Joe's cupholders as the most expensive cup holders ever.

In a spyder, you could do this in the rockers, and the stock Santana cup holders should work fine for this location.  There are a few other locations that may work,  but that would also depend on how you fit/sit in the car.  I like mine just forward of the seat, essentially between my legs, but that would not work without the seat all the way back and would also depend on how well you fit under the steering wheel.  For my size it is not an issue...

Carey.  Is the core for combined A/C, heater in the speedster the same size as Joe's heater core?  I think I could live with the size of Joe's core.  (I know that's what she said)  I'd really like to avoid the under dash valance in my build just to hide the core.  I'd rather just have under dash vent and defrost and forgo the valance with the vents.

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