A/C conversion to Sanden/R134

[Ti Kan]

auditude at cox.net writes:
> > If you're going to convert to the UrQ style, be aware that the UrQ uses
> > the Mini York compressor instead of the standard York.  My 4000 (being a
> > 4-cylinder car) also uses the Mini York with the compressor mounted
> > on the exhaust side of the engine.  You can identify a mini York by
> > its entirely cubic shape, including the top and bottom plates.  The
> > standard York is also cubic, but larger with a sort-of hexagonal shaped
> > top/bottom plates.  ICE makes Sanden adapter brackets for both the York
> > and the Mini York applications.
>
> Actually, I would be using the York Bracket from the 5kt, so I guess it wouldn't technically be urq-style unless the 5kt uses a mini-York, which I doubt.

The type 44 5Kt doesn't use a York compressor at all.  Early 5Kts
have AC Delco compressors, and then later they switched to a Nippondenso
compressor.  They all have different brackets.

> It would be extra cool (ha!) to find a factory R134 application, and to go the junkyard on half-price day and get a decent Sanden compressor for cheap.  Any idea what one of these Sanden's might come stock on?  Once the expense of the rest of the conversion is spent, if the compressor goes bad later and I lose some R134, I can deal with it at that time.  But I realize it might be false economy.

No recent US-market Audi has used a Sanden compressor, unfortunately.
VW had several models that used Sandens but none of those will help you.
If you must go the factory route, maybe look at Nippondenso compressors
as that's what they used on the type 89 as well as the later type 44.
You can use the factory brackets from those cars, but the compressor is
not going to be as economical as the Sandens.

-Ti
2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
1984 5000S turbo
1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
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