Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, it's not technically part of the engine. I've searched and browsed and can't make sense or this.

What about a 3rd gen determines where the ac compressor is mounted? I've seen firebirds, cameros, of various years and they all seem different. Most are passenger side but many aren't. Did GM just flip a coin every year or is there some rhyme or reason? I'd like to get an idea as to which models are driver's side. I think it will simplify a turbo app.

 

im pretty sute that somehwere between 85-87 it switched from the drivers side to the passengers side, my 85 trans am has it on the drivers side, but alot of newer ones ive seen, especially in the tpi models have it on the passengers side

 

Humm, IIRC, the V-belt systems have the driver's side, the serp-belt systems the pass side.

JamesC

 

88, I believe.

 

This jives with a several pics I saw, one was an '86 and had a driver's side ac.......

One was an '87 with a pass side, but it was also not the oem engine (a 406) so who knows what he did.