Nice. Where was the condenser sourced from?

A place called AAPAK here in Phoenix. Stood at the counter and piece by piece picked all the parts you see out.

Looks like that is going to be a very clean setup!

My car originally came with the compressor on the driver's side with similar hoses going all the way across the engine bay. I went through the painful process of piecing together a later 89-92 serpentine setup that moves the compressor to the passenger side, all in the name of engine bay cleanliness.

I can see why so many people delete their AC systems... lots of parts under the hood you can eliminate! I kept mine though because no matter how many track days I think I'm going to do, this is a street car at the end of the day and I will put way more miles on it in the summer if I have working AC. And isn't that the end goal? (And I'm also not a good enough driver to tell the difference of removing 20 or so pounds of the front end and the extra 2-3 hp!)

Can't wait to see the final product!

New AC setup is installed and functional... Install was pretty painless, I had to notch out a hole in the lower passenger side of the core support to give room for the 90* fitting coming out of the bottom of the new condenser and we had to reconfigure the upper condenser mounts a bit, but other than that...it all went in as planned.

Love the new look, no more 36 year old hoses stretched across the engine.

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Took 2# 11oz of freon to get it evened out and cooling down to about 45 degrees.

Bring on that Phoenix summer heat baby, we are ready for it now!!

New hose routing is much better. I dislike that on my g-body as well.

Any updates on the EFI set-up? How much more tuning has been required?

We haven't touched it or messed with it in a while, it's pretty much spot on.

The learn table shows a few areas with a little more than 5% correction on it after an autocross race or two and then a few different areas of more than 5% correction after a bunch of easy street driving, but overall, there are zero issues anywhere and I think it's pretty darn good now.

Here was my best run of last weekend at Good Guys, I made about 15 passes and the engine responded just like it did in this pass every single time. Love the new 3.70 gear and TruTrac diff as well. Car was as planted and jumped as hard forward as it ever has and turn in is more precise as well. Finished 5th in class and 16th overall out of almost 60 cars and even made round one of the shootout.

1985 Monte Carlo
 

Lance,
Good to hear the engine, gearing and Efi are working well and together
Also sounds like the Driver is doing great... not sure how
you drive that big car on the tight Good Guys tracks
I can really tell the difference from my firebird to the Pantera

Well done... keep having fun

Bob

Thanks Bob... The event was a great cap off for my racing season. Seems like all of my friends around the country are just now getting back into the swing of racing again and we are done for the summer unless I travel.

A friend was taking pictures of us on track and i put this gif together from some of his pics. It shows just how hard I could be on the skinny pedal yet the car stayed under me without getting all out of shape. It was a blast...

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A good friend of mine just sent me this video of one of my early runs taken from the sidelines at GoodGuys Spring Nats in Scottsdale.

Thought I'd share a bit different perspective of the car on track with the class...