anyone kept A/C with their BPT swap?

[ryanlindenberg]

hey has anyone kept their A/C with their BPT swap? i'm running the haltech FMU and i need to know how to get my A/C working again. thanks for the help.

[jaydog5678]

Nah, who needs that.? :p

Besides, your in Minnesota. It's cold more than have the time.

[natural born honda killer]

well i for one am in texas and would love for someone to figure this out. i had a/c before the haltech and since i have the haltech it dsoesnt work and would love to have the a/c. i think the relay just needs to be moved to a toggle switch to make it run or not but i dont know where the relay is.

[jaydog5678]

The relay is on the firewall, on the passenger side, IIRC.

<small>[ July 31, 2004, 04:03 PM: Message edited by: jaydog5678 ]</small>

[OsoSlo z28]

yeah, the relay is up in the passenger side/firewall corner. you can use a pwm to run the a/c.

[manowar821]

DUDE, you live in Minnesota?! What part? I live in Minnetonka/Minneapolis area. We should chill some time.
Oh and hold on Jaydog5678, MN gets hot man, AC is nice in the summer. TRUST me... We get around 90-100 F. sometimes. I love my AC
I don't know the answer, I was just like "MN MX3 PERSON?! awesome!" I've only got the sohc 92, and I plan on keeping it and getting the turbo kit for it.

Peace man, and E-mail me or something: manowar8211@yahoo.com

[Tempus]

Originally posted by manowar821:
DUDE, you live in Minnesota?! What part? I live in Minnetonka/Minneapolis area. We should chill some time.

{que the 'it's a small world' theme}

heh. I live in the Seattle area now, but I grew up in MN.. the Village of Deephaven to be more exact.. (between Wayzata and Excelsior) about 6 blocks from St Louis Bay on Lake Minnetonka.. Whereabouts are you at?

[ryanlindenberg]

i live in the north western part of MN up by Grand Forks, ND. i had the DOHC swapped in the BPT found out 2 days ago that the motor is crap, and now am almost done swapping back to the b6. don't buy stuff from corksport, they suck. i bought the MS style front from them...it had 3 air pockets and was so thin i had to reinforce it. bought a stainless clutch line, doesn't completely fit into the bracket thing but i made it work. bought a BPT that is supposedly tested before being shipped, compression is way low on cyl. 1. i actually havn't bought anything that is produced by them that worked correctly. i bought my clutch from them, that worked fine but that was made by ACT.

i was just in the St. Paul area about a week ago, on Lake minnetonka. my friend lives in deephaven. it's really nice there.

<small>[ August 01, 2004, 02:21 AM: Message edited by: ryanlindenberg ]</small>

[manowar821]

I live about 8 minutes west of uptown (my favorite place) on highway 7.
I went searching for other MN people on this site, there are quite a few!
Then I thought "man, we should have an MX-3 meet or something" we could drive around a bit, and then chill somewhere. Get food or take a trip to a track and ****. Theres a track just 40 or so miles west of the Twin Cities I belive...

[manowar821]

Originally posted by ryanlindenberg:
bought a BPT that is supposedly tested before being shipped, compression is way low on cyl. 1.

I saw your post about that, that sucks a lot man.. I thought that corksport was nice but I guess not. I wasn't planning on getting anything from them though, I decided to turbo the 1.6 sohc!

[Franko]

I kept my ac when I swapped.. I dont have a haltech or anything I am using the mx3 ecu with a a'pexi safc on it. The ac works perfectly.. All I did was just bolt the compressor that was on the mx originally right to the new engine.. It works like a charm. There is a wire that has to attach to the top of the compressor.. Make sure that is plugged in.. It might be easy to miss because it is so small..

[wickedmx3]

Well my AC works with my BPT, but it gets hot, they told me it is because I need to put in a fan and then it will be fine, but I never got around to it since when I drive it in the spring/summer/fall, I have the windows down and the radio up...but maybe it is something I will do this year.

[nolig2278]

you guys with an AC in a bpt: have any of your acs failed or leaked from the excessive turbo heat?

did you protect your ac in any way?

[MechaManZero]

No AC here, need room for downpipe

[Limegreen mx-3]

i don't know about heltech but i have seen many older miata guys that will not give up there a/c of curse they used a TEC II OR III and still retaind there a/c with the boosted miata. talk about picky worse than corvette owners.