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On 18 Feb 2002, at 23:29, Shad Laws wrote: > However, I disagree that A/C will kill your ACVW, period. It just requires > modification to the original system! A 5-cylinder Sanden 508 compressor takes > about 1.25-1.5hp at cruise. That is a TINY load. This certainly sounds like a great improvement, but what would you do about the holes in the intake air housing? I see those as the bigger problem. > But, one thing is for sure, though: A/C for all of the T1-based > engines (T3 included) was definately an afterthought. It wasn't until the T4 > engine (used in the Type 4, 914, and later bus) that they actually designed the > engine with A/C in mind. For the T4 car itself, the car was also designed with > A/C in mind: there is a seperate piece under the dash specifically designed to > be removed for A/C installation, kinda like a block-off sort of thing on a > modern car. While the T4 engine may be better adapted to A/C, the 914 certainly was not. I removed the A/C from one of these because it was awful. I also have a customer with a type 4 with A/C; on that car the engine sheet metal had to be chopped up to install the compressor. This was a dealer installed system, but I think it was done the way the A/C designer had intended. Personally, if I had bought that car new and seen what they did to install the A/C I'd have been sick. OTOH, my local Ford dealer did just as bad a job when they replaced a subframe bolt on my wife's Taurus: They cut a hole (4" x 6" oval) in the floor and glued a patch over it when they were done. The unfortunate part about this was that I THINK it would have been easier to just do it right rather than saw out that big piece of metal. - Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe