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Air Con
This might seem like a bit of a daft idea, but I love my car and don't
particularly want to change it. However, the only thing it doesn't have that I really would like is air con. Is it feasible to get air con retrofitted, or get parts of a scrap 164 Lusso? or is it just too expensive to be worth bothering with? I have a 95 164 TSpark |
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Tom Boltwood > wrote: > This might seem like a bit of a daft idea, but I love my car and don't > particularly want to change it. However, the only thing it doesn't have that > I really would like is air con. > > Is it feasible to get air con retrofitted, or get parts of a scrap 164 > Lusso? or is it just too expensive to be worth bothering with? I have a 95 > 164 TSpark It would be a lot of work - a lot of work. I have a GTV-6. The thing came with aircon when it was new, but somewhere in it's life, a previous owner disconnected it and pulled all the plumbing out of the engine side of the system while leaving the heat exchanger and fans intact in the cabin (and the aircon radiator in place in front of the engine radiator). When I decided to put a 3-liter motor in the car (to replace the 2.5 that came in it) the engine I bought (only 5K original miles. It had been in storage since being removed from an almost new, totaled-out Alfa 75 [Milano Verde]) had a newer rotary-type compressor still attached to it when I got it, so I decided what the hell, I'm going to reconstruct the air conditioning system. All new hoses were made-up, new General Motors dryer and control solenoids were sourced from an aftermarket parts house (12 volt aircon parts are 12 volt aircon parts, it doesn't matter who built 'em), and the radiator heat exchanger was replaced with a larger, custom made unit (the original one leaked) and a few relays et al were pulled from a wrecked GTV-6. In the cabin, the dash was disassembled, the heat exchangers (some US Model GTV-6's, made post 1984, had an auxiliary heat exchanger and squirrel-cage blower fitted by Alfa Romeo USA to make the system more efficient. Alfa called it the "Tropic-aire" system. My car has that) and ducting were all checked and replaced where necessary. The whole thing cost about US$500 in parts, and almost US$1000 in labor. Since your odyssey will be similar (except for purchasing new parts and having a custom aircon radiator made), you can gauge the work involved from my experience. -- George Graves ------------------ "When I learned to use my new computer and found out what Microsoft Windows XP does best, I felt like I had just paid $700.00 for a deck of cards." |
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