Reply to "NOS AC System!!! Were we all sleeping?"

V8jet, that is a great looking dash ! Mike, good questions, the amazing coincidence in life is that (as I was preparing my move and selling another car) the person who called to chat on my Ebay listing turned out to be the very the person Steve mentioned (the founder of Classic Auto Air), Al. Another member on this forum has the same Mangusta Al modified (and years later, I bought a stash of the 'not perfect enough' parts from the same car, including the AC vents and original evaporator).

My bet is that changing the fan motor is NOT going to help, but since I think the same basic Fan was used on Pantera maybe there is some record of people trying. The 80's Alfa Spyder fan and the 60's original Goose fan are so identical to suggest there wasn't much room for improvement.

Removing the cover from the rightmost vent should relieve some amount of backpressure from the fan, an easy way to test is to listen if the fan speed slows down when that panel is removed...If it doesn't, then the evaporator is what is limiting the airflow.

At least another member here has considered upgraded condensers (esp, thicker ones available for a Pantera). The good news about me being half a world away from my car (and not having to actually care if the AC is cold!) is that I can imagine originality (the Tecumseh HG500 compressor) would be better for the car than the rotary compressor on it now...Lee