So my A/C compressor froze up today and ate the belt. It's been leaking freon for awhile, anyway.

Before I replace it with another stock one, is there an upgrade?

Thanks

 

There are a number of upgrades available, actually.

Almost anything modern is an upgrade over what our cars came equipped with. I highly recommend considering that over putting the same obsolete fragile garbage back on your car.

The ones that seem most popular these days use the Sanden compressors. There's a couple of them, of different sizes and whatnot. Since the compressor is just a dumb mindless pump, there's very little "matching" or any of that sort of thing that needs to be done... kind of like, if you had a pump pumping the water into your house, you wouldn't have to match the pump (compressor) to your faucet (orifice) or sink (evaporator) in any detail... all you need is, that it deliver adequate pressure and volume to make your faucet run and fill up the sink. Big enough to make the water run fast enough, not so big that it blows something up or consumes unnecessary power. Compressors are no different in that regard.

I think if you hit the Cooling forum there are a couple of people who have used the replacement "kits", maybe you can get some sources and models and even some other people's experiences with them.

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/cool...e-systems.html

I just received the sanden compressor and adapter brackets from dirty dingo, ran me about $270 shipped. I have yet to install as I'm changing my accessory drive in conjunction with replacing my aging hedman headers with Dyno Don's. Review the above link, it may be a good option for you.