air con system delete

[sambb]

I'm going to go ahead and remove all the air con gear in the car. It hasn't been re gassed in 4 years and I don't intend on doing it either. Its all just dead weight mostly on the heaviest corner of the car so its coming out. I've looked around on the web but I can't seem to find shorter A/C delete ancillaries belts. Does anyone who has done this know if there are shorter belts that are available and if that's all I really have to worry about with this mod?

thanks
sam

[h100vw]

I'm going to go ahead and remove all the air con gear in the car. It hasn't been re gassed in 4 years and I don't intend on doing it either. Its all just dead weight mostly on the heaviest corner of the car so its coming out. I've looked around on the web but I can't seem to find shorter A/C delete ancillaries belts. Does anyone who has done this know if there are shorter belts that are available and if that's all I really have to worry about with this mod?

thanks
sam

Measure around the pulleys and miss out the AC and then look on line for a belt of the appropriate length.

[seangti]

Is that just a matter of removing the compressor and sorting a shorter belt? Leaving the radiator and pipes in?

[Snail Style]

Not if you wanna do it properly, if all you are doing is pulling the few pipes out and a compressor you may as well leave it in. Condensor and evap need to be taken out also, one of which is a dash out job.

[sambb]

I was mainly hoping to remove the compressor and the condenser (that's the AC radiator in front of the radiator isn't it) - just the heavy stuff at the front of the car. There must be 20+kg of dead weight there out over the front wheels that I have no use for + I assume I'd get better airflow through the radiator with the codensor removed. If possible the pipe work can stay in so that I can reinstall it down the track before/if ever I sell it. Beside the radiator there are some AC hard pipes that use compression fittings held in by circlips that if I separate might allow me to remove the condenser neatly. That's what I was hoping for anyway.

[Snail Style]

Not worth the hassle mate, compressor is at most 5kg; condensor maybe another 2kg?

Go for a jog and take a decent dump before you go track, same same.

[sambb]

only 5kg for the compressor yeah? I thought it'd be heavier than that. The compressor has a clutch system or is it always a draw on the crank?

[vwthunder]

I have removed the compressor and condenser and piping from my engine bay, dont want it on my new engine, it looks horrid

I will be searching for a new belt also. Was told to do what gav said, measure and go to supercheap or somewhere and look for the right length ribbed belt

[sambb]

Got a weight figure from what you removed? Yeah i'll source the belt at least so I have it. I'd thought that maybe there were 1.8T's in something that had no air con and that there might be an off the shelf VAG belt but if I can find one at repco/supercheap etc then even better.

[vwthunder]

Got a weight figure from what you removed? Yeah i'll source the belt at least so I have it. I'd thought that maybe there were 1.8T's in something that had no air con and that there might be an off the shelf VAG belt but if I can find one at repco/supercheap etc then even better.

Hmm I put all the parts off into storage where i never go, didnt weight them

Im guessing the compressor is about 10kg (quite heavy) , condenser would be another 3kg, lines another 1kg