AC overhaul

[britlude]

Last year I had my AC regassed, but, although it worked, it did struggle when the sun hit the car… if it was overcast, we froze, but as soon as the sun broke thru the clouds, it couldn’t keep up…. When I got the car, nearly 20 years ago, we froze all the time, so it was time to refresh the AC system….


I have been running grills in the front vents for years, but, of course, they weren’t there when previous owners drove the car, so I knew there was some battering to the condenser radiators, so a pair were ordered from amayama, along with the flexible hoses to the AC compressor…


Grotty AC pump
IMG_20180713_112017 by NSX Jon, on Flickr

The new pump from RockAuto
IMG_20180713_105605 by NSX Jon, on Flickr


The pulley to body measurement of the original pump….
IMG_20180713_111919 by NSX Jon, on Flickr


The pulley to body measurement of the new pump
IMG_20180713_111846 by NSX Jon, on Flickr




To use the new pump (later spec to move it further from the exhaust pipes on later cars) I needed a new spec bracket, that came from Christian at ATR in Austria…
37629818_1172630259543344_9145779608656805888_n by JON SUTH, on Flickr


Eagle eyed amongst you will notice that the AC pump pix are from 2018…. Yup, that’s how long it’s been since I wanted to do the swap, the AC pump has been noisy in operation, and a little annoying… it’s not got any better in the last 6 years!