Adding A/C to a non A/Ced S13

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Daemos
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So right now I can get a REALLY good deal on a S13...but it doesn't have Airconditioning...which sucks, ever since I was born everycar my family has owned has AC, my Spec V has AC, but will be sold in favor of a S13...but summers here are hot, and I rely on AC ALOT...so I need to know if I should wait (possibly a VERY long time) to get a car with AC or not...

Now so how hard is it to install AC or get it installed onto a car w/o it? How hard is it to install during say an engine swap to an SR20DET?

How much would it roughly cost and what is needed?


180fan
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just get the parts for the ac from the clip. it'll make the work alot easier.

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Def
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If you have the evaporator, just gotta do some wiring and hook up the hoses. Not hard at all.

But since when did it get hot up in Canada!?!?! :)

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Def wrote:But since when did it get hot up in Canada!?!?! :)


In the most ****ed up City in the world...

our temperatures range from -50 C (-58F in winter) to like +40 C (104 F in summer) with low humiditity to VERY high humidiity. These weather changes can also happen instanenously....in May it was like +23 for like 2 weeks, then it snowed...wtf?

Heat I can handle, heat + humidity = gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Def
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I dunno - I thought it was pretty darn cold in Canada in July when I was up there. In the 70s-80s *F.

Are you sure it gets up to 104*F in the summer? It doesn't even get that hot in lower Alabama, which is about 2000 miles south of you and a subtropical climate.

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Def wrote:I dunno - I thought it was pretty darn cold in Canada in July when I was up there. In the 70s-80s *F.

Are you sure it gets up to 104*F in the summer? It doesn't even get that hot in lower Alabama, which is about 2000 miles south of you and a subtropical climate.


Trust me, I live in the most ****ed up city in the world. We have the most extreme temperature changes in the world withen a year...average temp this year would be 30-35 C (to lazy to do the conversion) right now it's really only 25-28C though...it'll probally get up there :(

We are right in the flat lands.

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corn322
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wow, sounds like the weather here in austin, texas. although it doesn't get quite as cold.

I guess as long as you have the time and the patience, you could put a/c into the car pretty easy. even easier during it while your swapping engines, 'cause then you have all that free space to run a/c lines and what not.

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Def
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I'm actually selling a complete KA A/C system(compressor, lines, condensor and drier - no evaporator though, too much of a pain to take out) - email me at [email protected] if you're interested.

It was working when I took it out - my S13 is just my fun/track car - so didn't need A/C.

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Def wrote:If you have the evaporator, just gotta do some wiring and hook up the hoses. Not hard at all.

But since when did it get hot up in Canada!?!?! :)


Don't you have to rechage the system? That cant be it..


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