air-con "rad" install

I would appreciate some advise on air-con installation and in particular where to install the little rad.

Up front seems the logical location but entails long hoses. In the rear will have exhaust heat from the engine and axillary oil cooler

If in front where is the best location. Seems that the front of the battery box would work in a CMC.
Then there is the issue of how to get air to the rad. Will it work without an electric fan when the car is at idle in 40C weather?

I would rather not cut a grill in the front fiberglass, but will do so if necessary. In any case the perceived problem is at idle and a scoop or grill will be of little help if not moving and sitting on roasting asphalt.

Years ago I added the port installed AC to a 914. The condenser went under the spare tire in front. A scoop was cut facing forward and smaller one to rear. The condenser had a large fan bulling air thru it. That should work in the nose - if you construct a shroud around it to direct air. Could duct horn grills there too. At least there's lots of room under door sills on either side. There's a huge area in back behind rear seat too. With similar intake and exhaust ducting that could work too - and line runs would be short. Assume you don't want to cut Boxster vents either side behind doors?

The area in the rear behind the seat is taken up by an aluminium box for the ECU and related components ala Mango Smoothie. Still waffling on wether or not to put some speakers back there as well.
There is also an aux oil cooler in the rear exhausting hot air, plus any outwash from the engine when at idle.

Seems up front is the most likely location, and a fan for cooling when at idle. The long hoses are not so ideal.

I will cut Boxster style vents for my flared car, but this is a classic body for my Wife and IMHO vents would seem out of place.

You'll get plenty of air movement under the nose even without extra vents, scoops, or ducting. Not that those hurt. But you should use the fan. Just mount it low and make sure there's space in front and behind for airflow. Tilting the top forward can help.

The line length isn't an issue. The total length's only a couple extra feet more than what you would need if the radiator was in the back.

THis is different but it does have credence. I have a 1973 911S with A/C. It has approximately 40 feet (or a bit over 12 meters) of "Barrier Hose" (the only kind of hose that will hold freon without leaking) The hose run starts at the compressor and goes to an engine lid condenser then from there to an add on condenser (with fan) behind the left rear wheel then to a flat condensor mounted under the front bumper then to a receiver dryter then to the evaporator and finally terminates back to the compressor. The bottom line is this, don't worry too much about the hose length. I updated everything except the rear engine lid condenser and the front condenser with Griffith products
see: http://www.griffiths.com/