Big Tunnel fitting

[prox]

Need a bit of advice please,

Looking at fitting a big tunne to my MK2 to take a T5 gearbox for a future cosy transplant. I got a tunnel from burtons and have just offered it up and its not the best fit. My question is can you still run the heater box with the big tunnel ? looking at it tonight I think it is going to be tight, if not impossible to remove it and re-fit the heater box.

Can anyone offer any help


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[filstu]

I used an auto tunnel to allow me to keep the heater, however i don't know if the T5 will fit within it.

[Mkdu]

one mate has fit a cosworth with T5 in auto tunnel, he has to cut at some places to be able to fit.

[xpackboy]

I've got heater matrix in mine with t5 box its tight but she's in and working perfect

[Forest_rallying]

I've got heater matrix in mine with t5 box its tight but she's in and working perfect

You might have to slightly modify the top of your new big tunnel to allow your heater to fit correctly. You certainly don't want to be without a heater, I have experinced that with a Rally Car and it was no fun on road sections in winter.

[Erikmex]

Fit a kit car heater

[Matt75]

Or fit an electric heater. I run a grp 4 tunnel and went that way

[potey]

I have fabricated my own big tunnel in my mk1 to allow fitment of T5 cosy g/box, I have kept the original heater but just had to remove the plastic deflector off the bottom of the heater and it is stil possible to remove the heater unit, so yes it can be done!!

[prox]

Many thanks for the replies
Still work in progress!

Having spent 4 hrs looking through posts on here I decided to buy the Rally Weld tunnel which happens to be cheaper than the crappy one from Burton Power !

It has arrived and although I have not fitted it yet it looks much better shaped and holds it size very well. The burton one is just so flimsy and I think has spread like 4 inches wider.
Will post a up-date when I manage to get into the workshop.

[Turboman]

An better pics of your dash install

[paulmex]

Im also using a T5 and wanted the biggest tunnel I could find so went for one with the radiused edges. But the heater wouldn't fit !!! I thought about the electric rally ones but I had a standard heater kicking about so thought I'd have a go at altering in ?
I only wanted heat for the screen to demist and I bit of cold air in summer would be a bonus so I cut the bottom off the heater box and it works a treat ,

[prox]

Im also using a T5 and wanted the biggest tunnel I could find so went for one with the radiused edges. But the heater wouldn't fit !!! I thought about the electric rally ones but I had a standard heater kicking about so thought I'd have a go at altering in ?
I only wanted heat for the screen to demist and I bit of cold air in summer would be a bonus so I cut the bottom off the heater box and it works a treat ,

Thanks for the photos , i have managed to get the heater back in but had to trim the bottom and move the wiper motor out of the way to slide the heater box back in.

My car is from SA and they have a different heater box !