The last six weeks have seen various jobs finished off in an attempt to have the car ready for the pod yesterday. Most of the work i wanted done got finished in time but as always, there are still jobs to do.
I'll start with the A/C as this was a job i started in April!
Ive been doing this in stages with the parts behind the dash tackled a few pages back so now we have the engine bay components and wiring to cover.First up is the fan. This was a very lucky ebay find as its a brand new genuine BMW old stock item that a trade seller who sells new old stock for BMW, VAG, Merc and Porsche. I got it for £100 and he was local so i collected. New from BMW they are £280 so i was chuffed with that!
By the looks of the label on the box, it was originally at Vines Guildford and was delivered there from Bracknel in Jan 2000 so its been sitting on their shelf for a while!
Next up was an OE quality condensor from Euro Car parts for a resonable £60. This was given a dose of wax oil on the ends that are prone to rust. New rubber mounts and fittings to mount the fan were used with a smear of copper grease incase it needs to come appart at some point.
Fan and condensor bolted together and sitting on its new mounts in the front panel.
The next thing i tackled with the A/C fit was the engine bay loom. The body looms thankfully already have the relevant wiring for the A/C up to the fuse box from inside the car but the engine bay loom need to be pluged into the fuse box. I cut the fuse box from the donor car with just the A/C loom left atatched and then used the correct BMW terminal removal tool to unclip the spade terminals from the relay and fuse positions in the box.
After that, the old dried out loom tape was removed and recovered with new stuff then routed to the correct places and pluged into the fuse box.
Next was onto the compressor, first the mounting bracket bolted to the side of the block, then the compressor with adjuster bracket and a new belt.
After this was done the remaining pipework and receiver/dryer was plumbed in but i forgot to take pics of these as i was in a rush to finish due to the workshop being locked up at 5pm one saturday! I will post some pics of the completed pipe work when it take some.
Le Mans Classic 2006
