Air conditioning install

[Travis Koch]

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  To start with let me say that, I know it seems backwards when most people would want to rip the A/C out of their cars in order to go faster but I am curious if any one has bothered to install an airconditioning system on a car that originally had none.  What road blocks did you come across?  etc....

  The donor car is a 94 Non turbo.

 The car that will get the upgrade is a 91 Turbo AWD.

[Brett Haviland]

On my old,old  1ga the previous owner had removed the condensor,lines and compressor, but all the electrical and evaporator was still there.  It was pretty strait forward to re-install it all.

Putting ac into a car that never had it b4 tho is a different matter.   I'm sure it couldbbe done but it would require complete removal of the dash and swapping in the proper heater/evap box, plus all the switches and control module.

If its still R12 you will also have to retrofit it to R134a.

[John Hartman]

yep, the dash part will be the hardest and the biggest pain in the ass.

Putting a condenser in behind the rad, installing the compressor and piping, that will be a bit of trouble, but putting the evaporator in the dash and running the wiring into a harness that does not have it will be a real treat...

[Brett Haviland]

The non-a/c vehicles might have all the wiring there... just the connectors are left unplugged....so in theory you could get all the switches/ a/c module(mounts on the top of the evaporator box) and sensors and just plug them in... thats IF your non a/c harness has the plugs.

Sounds like a big job!!  Might be easier to just sell the auto 1g with no a/c and get one that does have AC hahahha

[Travis Koch]

  That's definitely a consideration.  I am contemplating Yas's 1G but as of yet I don't know if has A/C. 

The wiring is there however so as long as the computer won't mind me adding an A/c unit it looks like it's just all grunt work...... something to do in the winter I guess..... and the unit I have in mind is R134a.  . . . . . . . . do I want to do more work?    hmmmmmmm


I'm also going to look at a non-runner tomorrow and don't have much info on it yet either.