s14 a/c condenser in s13?

[jb9]

Have you considered HPI's s14 Radiator Rescue condenser?

I don't think they ever made them them for s13s but from what I remember when I went down this rabbit hole is that they designed the condenser to cool as well as oem while blocking less air to the radiator. No idea how a rhd s14 condenser would work with lhd s13 AC lines. I'd assume you could flip it around/upsidedown and maybe get some small conversion lines so the factory lhd s13 lines hook up and if you're already modifying an s14 condenser into an s13 that really doesn't seem like too much more work. And the condenser is probably actually going to be designed for r134a and it'll probably be alot easier to just buy a new one than having to find and probably ship a used kouki 180sx from japan and still deal with the rhd issues.

I found the measurements for the hi pressure/low pressure houses on rhd japan so you could measure yours and at least know if the fittings will physically fit

https://www.rhdjapan.com/hpi-radiato...5-4mm-s14.html
https://www.rhdjapan.com/hpi-radiato...0-1mm-s14.html

[nwg916]

Originally Posted by jb9

Have you considered HPI's s14 Radiator Rescue condenser?

I don't think they ever made them them for s13s but from what I remember when I went down this rabbit hole is that they designed the condenser to cool as well as oem while blocking less air to the radiator. No idea how a rhd s14 condenser would work with lhd s13 AC lines. I'd assume you could flip it around/upsidedown and maybe get some small conversion lines so the factory lhd s13 lines hook up and if you're already modifying an s14 condenser into an s13 that really doesn't seem like too much more work. And the condenser is probably actually going to be designed for r134a and it'll probably be alot easier to just buy a new one than having to find and probably ship a used kouki 180sx from japan and still deal with the rhd issues.

I found the measurements for the hi pressure/low pressure houses on rhd japan so you could measure yours and at least know if the fittings will physically fit

https://www.rhdjapan.com/hpi-radiato...5-4mm-s14.html
https://www.rhdjapan.com/hpi-radiato...0-1mm-s14.html

Hey, Appreciate the info! Yes I have looked into this, it doesn't seem any more difficult than throwing the 95 and up 180sx condenser in and fabricating some lines up but I feel like the s14 one is just more straight forward. The s14 system follows the same route as the s13 while the rhd stuff is on opposite sides. That HPI condenser looks like a parallel flow condenser for sure and would definitely work very well, if only they made them for lhd 240's... I'll leave some pics below so you can see the routing i'm talking about.... And I have found a couple s14 ac condensers already, 180sx condensers are probably super expensive and probably mostly in japan, not sure how the shipping would work with the coronavirus going on.


(s13)
https://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/reso...2e39ff502c.png

(s14)
https://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/reso...ed70e50015.png

(180sx)
https://image.nengun.com/catalogs/im...terisk_003.png

(s14 silvia rhd) this is probably how the routing would be with the hpi condenser
https://image.nengun.com/catalogs/im...terisk_001.png

[G_Low_Gr33n]

Originally Posted by nwg916

Hey, Appreciate the info! Yes I have looked into this, it doesn't seem any more difficult than throwing the 95 and up 180sx condenser in and fabricating some lines up but I feel like the s14 one is just more straight forward. The s14 system follows the same route as the s13 while the rhd stuff is on opposite sides. That HPI condenser looks like a parallel flow condenser for sure and would definitely work very well, if only they made them for lhd 240's... I'll leave some pics below so you can see the routing i'm talking about.... And I have found a couple s14 ac condensers already, 180sx condensers are probably super expensive and probably mostly in japan, not sure how the shipping would work with the coronavirus going on.


(s13)
https://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/reso...2e39ff502c.png

(s14)
https://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/reso...ed70e50015.png

(180sx)
https://image.nengun.com/catalogs/im...terisk_003.png

(s14 silvia rhd) this is probably how the routing would be with the hpi condenser
https://image.nengun.com/catalogs/im...terisk_001.png

What was the final verdict here?