Those who follow my build thread, know that I'm aiming to use a Scorpio heater unit and aircon condensor unit in my Granada.
Here's where the fun starts...and this is already puzzeling me as we speak.
There is little room under the dash and although under hood there is a lot more room, the wiper motor is in the way. The goal is to cut the firewall and mount te units so they are partly in the interior compartment and partly in the engine bay. First check I have to make is can I get away with fitting the units heightwise. They have to fit over the tranny tunnel and under the vents in front of the windshield. If that fits I then get stuck on the wiper motor, which prevents the unit from being mounted as central as possible.
So, my choices are: moving the wiper motor to the left or putting the heater system in off center and reshaping the air inlet. That will have to be done anyway I think and doesn't yet seem to be to much of an issue. The drawback of putting the heater in off center is that inside the car a cover has to be made and it will compromise the legroom of the area, which will probably look stupid. I'm thinking of not welding in the required modified sheetmetal, but mounting it in a removable fasion with a proper seal as water will run by that area.
So with that in mind I'd like to hear from people who have already moved a wiper motor, or lengthened a wiper linkage arm (from motor to linkage, not the wiper arm itself). What I'm struggling with is this: will the movement of the wipers be affected by changing the arms? I now have a short arm that connects to the motor and that goes 360 degrees round to move the wipers if I'm correct. That arm can't be lengthened or it will not be able to make the full turn. So can one simply add another arm between that short arm and the point where that short arm currently attaches to the linkage? Or does that totally mess up the movement cycle?
My mind says that as long as I keep the arm that actually rotates on the wiper motor its current length then the movement should always stay the same even with an additional extension arm in between. If correct then I have to see if I have the room to move the motor and add an extra linkage.
Please advise me, I need to get this sorted in my head. As cutting a perfectly good firewall/bulkhead is daunting enough without these doubts...
Here's where the fun starts...and this is already puzzeling me as we speak.
There is little room under the dash and although under hood there is a lot more room, the wiper motor is in the way. The goal is to cut the firewall and mount te units so they are partly in the interior compartment and partly in the engine bay. First check I have to make is can I get away with fitting the units heightwise. They have to fit over the tranny tunnel and under the vents in front of the windshield. If that fits I then get stuck on the wiper motor, which prevents the unit from being mounted as central as possible.
So, my choices are: moving the wiper motor to the left or putting the heater system in off center and reshaping the air inlet. That will have to be done anyway I think and doesn't yet seem to be to much of an issue. The drawback of putting the heater in off center is that inside the car a cover has to be made and it will compromise the legroom of the area, which will probably look stupid. I'm thinking of not welding in the required modified sheetmetal, but mounting it in a removable fasion with a proper seal as water will run by that area.
So with that in mind I'd like to hear from people who have already moved a wiper motor, or lengthened a wiper linkage arm (from motor to linkage, not the wiper arm itself). What I'm struggling with is this: will the movement of the wipers be affected by changing the arms? I now have a short arm that connects to the motor and that goes 360 degrees round to move the wipers if I'm correct. That arm can't be lengthened or it will not be able to make the full turn. So can one simply add another arm between that short arm and the point where that short arm currently attaches to the linkage? Or does that totally mess up the movement cycle?
My mind says that as long as I keep the arm that actually rotates on the wiper motor its current length then the movement should always stay the same even with an additional extension arm in between. If correct then I have to see if I have the room to move the motor and add an extra linkage.
Please advise me, I need to get this sorted in my head. As cutting a perfectly good firewall/bulkhead is daunting enough without these doubts...
