BadGTI

I have a '89 sohc coupe, and I wanna put a/c in it. I have searched on google but found nothing. I know I need to have the SR lines welded to the KA lines, but do I need lines and condensor from a sohc or a dohc?

Blackzenki82

WRONG


contact codyace on NICO, he sells adapter brakets that lets you bolt on a KA AC compressor, to a SR bracket...








i think this topic was covered a few weeks ago.... either way, once you get the stuff, you still have to wire it in...

Z28ricer

Skip the damn bracket shit, time to let the cat out of the bag.

Step one: acquire S13 KADE compressor who cares what shape, and S14KAde compressor in good, or new, or remanufactured shape.

Step 2: Remove the clutch plate and pulley from each

Step 3. Remove the bearing from each pulley.

Step 4: Install S14 bearing into S13 pulley

Step 5: Install new pulley onto S14 compressor, shim clutch plate.

Step 6: Install compressor on stock bracket, use stock S chassis usdm lines.

No welding, no chasing down a jdm compressor, no extra bracketry. No curtains number one and two, just plain curtains.

osama tim laden

and since you have a single cam chassis, youll need dual cam ac lines, and i believe condensor as well. or custom lines.

Z28ricer

Good point.

Blackzenki82

Z28 and tim both are correct as well....

more than one way to skin a cat!!

180SX

89-90 chasis use a different compressor that will not bolt up using brackets or anything...

all the lines are different

the condensor / condensor lines / evap / drier EVERYTHING is different...

you can not use ANYTHING from a DOHC chassie


only way to do this is by welding the front condensor line (high side) to the SR high side.. if it comes off of the condensor .. which 99% they are siezed after all these years..

then weld the the low side line SR fitting on to the sohc low side line.


Or you can do it the other way by pulling every line / dash - evap / condensor / dryer..

sorry no cat out of the bag on this one..


martin

osama tim laden

thats what i did. just swapped everything from a wrecked dual cam shell.
if you do this, make sure you flush the system and replace all o-rings and the dryer. new expansion valve is a good idea too.

Z28ricer

Before you go trying to say something wont work, go bolt a S14 compressor, to a SR a/c bracket, after you are done realizing that "oh shit, it does in fact bolt up with all four bolts, and the a/c lines will bolt up", then go take a look at the S14 compressor and an S13 DE compressor and go "hmmm hey the pulley looks like it would fix the only problem I see now, the belt not lining up" then actually do like I said, and play the swap game.

If you havent done it, dont try to say it wont work, just because you didnt figure it out already, again doesnt mean it wont work, oh ooops not everyone has already done everything SR, go figure.

osama tim laden

not everyone wants to swap around a bunch of junk and "make it work"
id rather just go to the store and buy a compressor.
and when it breaks, get another. and so on.