surferphil wrote:My solution is to get a white hood or line the one you have with some sort of insulating material. There is a really good product used in loft insulation which looks like fabric wadding with a foil layer (quite thin). It's safe to handle and doesn't break up - unlike older insulation material.
My AC used to work well, but the gas was replaced with the new wonder stuff and now it's useless!
This should have occured to me before, but I had a reminder today. I was under a friend's Porsche Boxster and saw that the A/C condenser had its own dedicated cooling fan. I should have remembered that I 1st saw that occur on a 1993 Eagle, which was one of the Chrysler H-body cars. The important thing is this, all R134a cars I know of have an electric fan mounted directly on the condenser which runs whenever the A/C is on. The need to have cool air run through the condenser fins is not adequately served by radiator-mounted cooling-fans sandwiched one layer behind the A/C condenser, even though that was wholly sufficient when using R12.
There is plenty of room to mount a PUSHER electric fan on the Elan's A/C condenser. I am not sure what the vertical dimension of the condenser is, or even if the USA & ROW condensers are the same though. It would be most advantageous to mount 2 fans set diagonally across the length of the condenser, if you wish to cover the highest percentage of surface area. I will investigate when I get the cajones to pull stuff apart & fit my new lower radiator-bracket!
