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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Hey Jim- > > 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. I agree. I always thought that a bit of sheet metal fabrication would do it - modify the piece that shrouds the generator belt (maybe using a second one for pieces) and make it shroud the A/C belt, too. > 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. Aye. By engine sheet metal, are you referring to pieces that simply close the engine compartment or guide the cooling air? I'm think the former is correct... although it looks ugly, it won't kill anyone - all the intake/cooling air is ducted like a T3 anyway. > 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. WTF? Ack... that's quite shoddy! <sigh> Take care, Shad Laws LN Engineering - Aircooled Precision Performance http://www.LNengineering.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe </x-charset>