Pimped out cooling system on ebay

[loman4ec]

This guy has been posting on ebay for a long time but this one is the best so far. Talk about over-restored. What do you guys think of this? I just wonder if he ever sells them? I couldn't imagine putting this in a restored machine. I can't believe he uses polished diamond plate for the bottom     I am surprised he didn't chrome plate the compressor  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300539116054&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_500wt_1156

[johnieG]

Nice... that'll look OEM in a restored Cavalier96   maybe some pin-stripes & side flames???


   hope that's not a liquid/high side filter-dryer installed on the evaporators' suction line looks like he chopped of 1/3 of it & braze it onto the line...yikes!

[SIGNGUY]

I can't see how this configuration would even work in a V81? or similiar? lots of tubing would have to be bent and moved around? and from the looks of it the compressor and condensor are switche around and backwards... hmmm

[loman4ec]

Since he makes them I think he would have one for the 81 specifically.

[loman4ec]

I can't believe it has 7 bids. I guess its only $150. For that price you cant even get the compressor. You could use the original deck plate get get rid of the polished diamond plate one.

[globalcompressors]

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[globalcompressors]

Upon closer inspection...yes, that is a drier...being used for an accumulator.
Also, it appears, that the same coil is being used, for the evaporator and condenser.
Now, I'm no expert...  but, since the coils are only 2 row and extreamly small in size,
what would happen if you installed a true 1/4hp compressor in say, a coil system
sized for, oh...1/5 or 1/6hp?  "snicker"...lol

I'm just say'n...

[johnieG]

Yeah, I noticed the condenser's coil is a "tad" undersized, & I don't even see a liquid line filter/dryer anywhere on the condensing unit...and I'm not too sure about that meat-ball shaped import compressor either...low torque/ no start-capacitor.. once it does start go into heat-soak mode & over pressure the system, it will stall & trip out on the restart...

Funny, I just ran into a commercial freezer that had been "serviced" by having it's original 1/3HP R-502 compressor ( which was bad) replaced with a good used 1/2Hp low-temp unit ( which you'd think would be fine...BUT>>>) the undersized condenser coils were hot enough to fry an egg on & when the heat-soaked R-4040A reached the evap valve, it basically flashed straight to hot vapor & wouldn't cool the "freezer" down past +45-degrees/F  High side pressure was WAY up @ >300PSI...there she blows!    he paid $800 for this "rebuilt" 2dr freezer & now has to put another $500 into a whole replacement compressor/condensing unit..not a happy puppy.  

[globalcompressors]

502/404 and 134a....not the same thing....

John, you should see the stuff I get in sometimes,
by "professional" techs...make your socks curl.

[loman4ec]

Now check out what he is selling. I think this is just wrong. I know at one point I would have bought this thinking I could figure it out and then finally figure out that the reason it is so expensive to have a cooling unit fixed is because its really complicated and takes a specialist. I don't know about everyone else but I think this is VERY misleading.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VENDO-CAVALIER-COKE-MACHINE-ADVANCE-TUNE-UP-KIT-1-4-/300542775186?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f9becf92#ht_720wt_1141