[s-cars] A/C retrofit- is it silly?

[Bill Clancy]

I've done it.  It was no big deal and everything worked when I got done. 
The problem I had was that I was fitting AC into an originally non-AC car. 
So the vents and plumbing were missing and so were a lot of things.   By the 
time I got done I had to buy a larger fan, the larger radiator, a different 
power steering pump...and had to make vents and plumbing out of hardware 
store parts.     The AC worked but never worked great.

If you are starting with a car that had AC at one time, then it should be 
quite easy to put it all back the way it was.    I would take it all from a 
salvage yard, as you mentioned.

good luck
-Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
To: "quattro" <quattro at audifans.com>; "S-cars mailing list" 
<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 9:08 AM
Subject: [s-cars] A/C retrofit- is it silly?


Listers-
I'm looking at a daily driver car (a VW) that has had its air
conditioning removed- totally. I would need to buy the compressor,
condenser, evaporator, receiver/dryer, all hoses, brackets, pulleys,
etc.

Assuming I can get the parts from a salvage yard, is this something
that is completely unfeasible?

I'm wondering if doing something like this would be stupid- might be
way too expensive of a job to do right.

Taka
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