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Originally Posted by moco
Thanks for the info broadfield when I get my money together ill send you a PM. also what radio do you recommend for my 240 if I want to listen to pandora through my phone?
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What phone do you have?
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Originally Posted by hpipro4
thanks! another thing noticed you modded your evaporator, what a/c lines are you going to run to go on the dryer? i took the high pressure line frm dryer going to evaporator and noticed they have a weird flare like flat then o-ring.
thanks
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I assume you were snooping around my Fotki account?
Yeah, I will have an update in my build thread and on my blog once I have everything sorted out with the AC setup for my LS3. I'm working on a tucked setup, so that's the reason for the fittings on the evaporator. Since the evaporator core is perfectly square, I'm rotating the core 90 degrees inside the housing so the lines poke out the bottom inside of the car instead of out through the firewall. However, I'm in the process of redoing them from what you saw in the pics to make them lower profile. The fittings in question are the industry standard o-ring pilot. They are made in #6, #8 and #10. It's the standard fitting used on aftermarket AC items and some OEM AC parts. The advantage is that XRP makes an AC lineup with braided hose and hose ends/fittings than can you can assemble yourself. So I will have the two braided lines that come out of the back of the compressor go straight to the firewall. Everything else in the AC setup will be hidden. You can find those hose and fittings starting on page 64 of the XRP catalog.
Typically one line from the compressor goes to the firewall, while the other line from the compressor goes to the condenser, then to the dryer, then to the firewall... which typically all of these lines going everywhere are seen in the engine bay.
With my tucked setup the line that goes from the compressor to the condenser will actually go inside of the cabin through a custom firewall bulkhead. It will then go back out through the passenger upper inner fender area to the front of the car where the condenser and drier will be hidden in front of the radiator. From there a line will come back the same way to the inside of the cabin and into the evaporator. Then out of the evaporator, to the second custom bulkhead and then out of the bulkhead to the compressor. This will give me a very clean setup.
The downfall of this is that the OEM LS compressor does not use the standard aftermarket o-ring pilot fitting. So I have to convert the compressor over to this fitting. There are compressor block adapters that do this, but at the moment I'm running into a mere 1/2" of clearance issue where the line would come out the back of the compressor and hit the runner on the header. Once I figure out a solution for this, I'll get the AC setup all done and post up all of the problems I had and issues putting this setup together the way I had it envisioned in my head.