Re: [Chrysler300] reciever drier/oli

["Burton Bouwkamp" <northburt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am a retired Chrysler engineer.

MV Marshall's E-mail reminded me of a Chrysler research and development program that we "shelved' because it was too expensive.

We knew that we had to replace the RV2 air conditioning compressor because it was too noisy and it wasn't smooth. We did everything we could do to isolate it and insulate it but while it met the cooling performance requirements it vibrated and had no place on a luxury automobile. And it always presented an under the hood packaging problem to mount and drive. 

In the Research Department we designed and built a three cavity Wankell compressor with each rotor indexed at 120 degrees. It was marvelously smooth and the over all package size was good and lent itself very nicely to mounting under the hood.....BUT it was so expensive even at production of 1,000,000 compressors a year that we stopped work on it and filed our work in the "nice try" category.

We decided to replace the RV2 compressor with a rotary compressor from Nippondenso after investigating the GM wobble plate compressor.  (We called the Nippondenso compressor "rotary" - and I assumed it was - but I never looked inside of one.) 

Burt Bouwkamp

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: yelof@xxxxxxxx 
  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] reciever drier/oli


    
  Just a point. There are no rotary A/C compressors for autos. There are
  4 cylinder Radial, 6 cylinder Axial, and the single and V twin piston
  style.

  MN. Marshall


  

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