Question on AC condensors, can they be run in series? Options

[boxsterfan]

Suppose a crazy person was thinking of A/C in their 914. Could such a crazy person run condensors in series behind the fog light grills?

Basically, the refrigerant (R134) would come from the compressor all the way up to the right front under the headlight, go through a condensor, come out of that condensor across the front of trunk, into a second condensor under the left head light area, and then back out to a receiver/dryer and through the rest of the system.

Obviously, there are some cuts you need to make in the front area behind the fog light grills, the condensors have to be small enough to fit under the headlights when close and for good enough air flow you have to have cut holes in the front wheel well behind the condensors.

I know someone on this board mounted some oil coolers in these locations (can't find the thread).

914 A/C reference from http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...=192917&hl= (thanks dlee6204).

[jcd914]

I don't think the loss in efficiency due to the drop in the Freon temperature as it reaches the second condenser would be an issue.

Many AC condensers are a single or a pair of tubes that snake back and forth across the condenser. If you compared a large condenser like this with say 10 feet of tubing to 2 smaller ones with say 5 feet of tubing each, you will get the same type of drop in efficiency with the large one as the Freon travels thru the same length of cooling tube.

If everything else about the condensers are the same (air flow, tube construction, fins , etc...), at any point along the way in the large condenser the Freon should have lost the same amount of heat as it would at the same distance thru the 2 condensers.

Just thinking out loud ... well in my head buy typing it.

Jim

[914_teener]

I don't think the loss in efficiency due to the drop in the Freon temperature as it reaches the second condenser would be an issue.

Many AC condensers are a single or a pair of tubes that snake back and forth across the condenser. If you compared a large condenser like this with say 10 feet of tubing to 2 smaller ones with say 5 feet of tubing each, you will get the same type of drop in efficiency with the large one as the Freon travels thru the same length of cooling tube.

If everything else about the condensers are the same (air flow, tube construction, fins , etc...), at any point along the way in the large condenser the Freon should have lost the same amount of heat as it would at the same distance thru the 2 condensers.

Just thinking out loud ... well in my head buy typing it.

Jim

I thought the question was whether or not the size area was sufficient to get the Freon back to a liquid.

If the question is if they can be run in a series like that then yes.

Whether it will work or not I guess is another question.