Intro and auto heat

[LittleRedTarga]

Been lurking on the forums for a while as I gave my first 911 some much needed TLC. Info here has been a lot of help on many of my diy projects. She's come a long way, and I've certainly fallen down the slippery slope of owning one of these cars!



I finally put the interior back together and had a question on the autoheat. Since I've backdated the heat is there any sense in keeping this control box? From what I understand this should actuate the heater lever up/down based on the setting of the rotary knob? I assume this whole actuator is missing from my autoheat controller (pic below). A PO had installed a flip switch (right side of the pic) to turn on the engine bay blower.

Today the heater lever (single) moves up/down and opens the flapper boxes on both sides... Since I don't have the engine-bay blower motor anymore I assume I can just replace the autoheat control with the non-autoheat rubber boot and call it a day? Is there any benefit to trying to source the dual handle flapper levers? (besides being able to control the flappers left/right?)

[RSBob]

Since you have already backdated the heat, you might as well follow through with the controls and ditch the useless weight of the control unit and just keep the single heat lever, just like the early cars successfully use. I have dual heat levers but since I rarely have a passenger, because my wife is too scared to ride with me, one would be totally sufficient.

Anyway, like you suggested, I would just buy a rubber boot and call it a day. Keep it simple and there is less to go wrong. And on the plus side it makes the interior more sporting and who knows, maybe someday you will ditch the center console.

[LittleRedTarga]

Already ditched the center console. Though I may miss that cassette storage.

[SkiVT]

On my 83, I added a single heat lever after backdating the system. I kept the autoheat console and internals in case the next owner, if I ever let that happen, wants to go back to original.