Ac compressor with air gap intake
factory AC three groove crank pulley, but as Bouchillon designed this kit you only use one of the double grooves and one on the compressor and alternator because the compressor pulley is one groove off from ones on a stock compressor. At some point I will resolve this by putting a spacer behind the crank pulley and resituating the alternator so all the double belt pulleys line up. but it all seems to work fine with one belt - I guess because it takes a lot less to spin the Sanden compressor.
The set up has you modify the controls from an original non-air car so it looks really stock once in place but almost all the mechanical cable stuff is replaced by electric switches, even the heater control valve, which is great. The only glitch is that the labels on the dash panel in front of the controller don't correspond with the new system. I found that after I used it a while I never actually looked at the controls anyway. My underdash gauges were already in place so I put three of the AC vents to the right and one all the way on the left. The middle one on the right is just for show. The AC is cold cold cold and cools the car off fine with 3 vents. If you decide to go with this kit get in touch with me so I can tell you what did and didn't fit with the installation and how the problems were resolved. It says it is a Perfect Fit Kit... BWHAAAHAAHAAHAA! I will admit that the technical set up of the controls, the under dash box and the underhood mechanical stuff was excellent. My installation was a bit more challenging because I started with an AC, rather than non-AC car so there was a bunch of work since the firewalls are different. Their kit is designed to add AC to a non-AC car.
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factory AC three groove crank pulley, but as Bouchillon designed this kit you only use one of the double grooves and one on the compressor and alternator because the compressor pulley is one groove off from ones on a stock compressor. At some point I will resolve this by putting a spacer behind the crank pulley and resituating the alternator so all the double belt pulleys line up. but it all seems to work fine with one belt - I guess because it takes a lot less to spin the Sanden compressor.
The set up has you modify the controls from an original non-air car so it looks really stock once in place but almost all the mechanical cable stuff is replaced by electric switches, even the heater control valve, which is great. The only glitch is that the labels on the dash panel in front of the controller don't correspond with the new system. I found that after I used it a while I never actually looked at the controls anyway. My underdash gauges were already in place so I put three of the AC vents to the right and one all the way on the left. The middle one on the right is just for show. The AC is cold cold cold and cools the car off fine with 3 vents. If you decide to go with this kit get in touch with me so I can tell you what did and didn't fit with the installation and how the problems were resolved. It says it is a Perfect Fit Kit... BWHAAAHAAHAAHAA! I will admit that the technical set up of the controls, the under dash box and the underhood mechanical stuff was excellent. My installation was a bit more challenging because I started with an AC, rather than non-AC car so there was a bunch of work since the firewalls are different. Their kit is designed to add AC to a non-AC car.
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