Hidden AC Hoses

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Like many of you have done, I wanted to keep the AC hoses in the engine compartment as much out of sight as possible. However, I didn't like the idea of bringing them through the firewall only to turn the 90 degrees before running them behind the fender.

This is what I came up with instead :




In order to get the lines to the AC unit, I used 4 short tubes to connect the firewall bulkhead to the kick panel. You may notice that the large pipe is kinked beyond use. My plan is to take these down to a shop and have them made using mine as a model, but without the kinks.

Here is the view through the kick panel :



I'm sharing these in case anyone else out there wanted to do something similar. Also, I have not decided how I am going to run the hoses from the fender to the compressor. Anyone done this yet? Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how to do this cleanly?

---Eric