Heater with turbo bulkhead box
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Just interested to find out how everybody deals with the heater inside the car when a turbo bulkhead box is fitted

Obviously the std heater would need to be moved further back in to the car on custom brackets, but does anybody have any suggestions whether the std heaters can be modified/slimmed down to fit in the std place, or is there another heater that can be fitted

I was possibly thinking about removing the built in fan and replacing this with a couple of 120mm x 25mm high flowing computer server 12v fans which spin at over 8000rpm, so allowing me to shorten the casing so that it can be located in the original place

just make new brakets mate

1293 Turbo mini

If I can help it, I don't want it sticking out further than the std one, as I want to make a centre console

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1293 Turbo mini

Make the brackets shorter. Before I changed my dash the heater fitted in it's original location with a bulkhead box.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Just drop the brackets at the rear so that the base of the heater is lower than the front.

I've used a Mk2 heater. The one with the bakalite body in two halves held together with clips.

It's easily identified as it has a vertical airflow slider instead of the horizontal job normally found on Mk3 on metal bodied heaters.

If you take a look at the photos in my build thread you'll see it lines up exactly with the bottom dash rail. In fact, the two screws that hold the front of the heater to the bottom rail line up with the original screw holes so nothing projects into the car. For the rear brackets, then do as above and cut the original brackets from the unwanted steel you cut out to fit the bulkhead box and re-weld them to the back of the new box but hold the Mk2 heater up in it's correct position before marking where to weld them.

I've fitted the front of my Mk2 heater with a modified leather trimmed Innocenti front heater panel but the front of the heater looks reasonable enough in standard form to not bother with this.

Any questions just PM me and I'll send you a few more detailed pics or post em up here if enough people want to see them.

Good luck with yours.

Richard

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