Custom air con line

[EmilA]

I need a custom made air con line for my R33 GTR. The pipe has been discontinued by Nissan and my old one had a kink in it. Trying to find a company who can make them but the local companies that I have contacted have not gotten back to me.

Any recommendations on who I can take it to please? Ideally close to Solihull/Birmingham.

The original line looks like this https://www.amayama.com/en/part/nissan/9244024u60 - Doesn't seem to challenging to make, and I'm happy to use a rubber hose instead of a metal one. I just want working AC!

[Haltamer]

Some good resources for DIY'ing them here:- https://www.spyderchat.com/threads/make-your-own-a...

One 'Good idea' that I've heard at some local car meets is, if you can get an approximate measure of the current line and source a similar part from another car with a similar length / same connectors, you can carefully do some pipe bending to modify it to fit..

Variable risk levels to that though if you end up kinking the replacement to-be!

[stevieturbo]

I wouldn't imagine it too difficult to repicate

Or try https://www.facebook.com/SR.Autobodies

[GreenV8S]

If it's a plain pipe with standard end fittings I'd expect any competent mechanic to be able to do swage the end fittings and form the pipe to shape. If you want to DIY, you could even consider cutting the kink out and using a coupler to join the two parts.

[SystemOfAFrown]

"Dan's Air" is in your area and say they can make custom hoses for retrofit or obsolete applications, got to be worth a call at least. I won't link the website as it currently has an invalid certificate which will scare people.

Dan's Air - Air Conditioning Services
200 Laburnmum Avenue
Marston Green
Birmingham
B37 6AN
Tel: [phone]

[richhead]

Pirtec should be able to help, branches all over

[Smint]

richhead said:

Pirtec should be able to help, branches all over

Indeed, other usually much cheaper hose people are available too, if the ends fittings are an issue they can usually graft your old fittings onto new pipes.

Nothing wrong with fitting decent quality reinforced rubber hose to aircon systems, they fit yards of similar rubber pipe to truck hydraulics (car transporters and construction machines have hundreds of yards of the stuff) running at far higher pressures in severe conditions than an aircon system will see.

[EmilA]

SR Autobodies did my restoration, I'm going to see them soon and already spoken to Steve about what he may have in the shop

I've tried to call Dan's Air, and also mailed but no reply on either. I'll give them another try though.

Sadly the old pipe was disposed off during my restoration, so I can't use that and fix the issues on it. But some good information here so thank you

[ouninpohja]

Try Burgaflex for the parts to make the pipes yourself