2007 ac swap, will update untill finished/solved

[tmontague]

Great write up and kudos for paving the way on this. I'll admit, it seems to have cost a lot less than I would have thought.

Quick Q for you and my apologies if you already answered it: why did you not just fill the a/c based on weight and essentially be done with it?

I understand dialing in pressures to potentially improve performance over factory specs, but as a starting point why not just use the factory fill weights as a baseline?

IME Japanese manufactured vehicles were never designed to have proper ac cooling at idle, they are sized for efficiency and to perform once driving.

All Japanese vehicles I've owned (Toyota, Mazda, Subaru) have decent ac at idle (~60F vent temps) but improve quite a bit once moving (~45F vent temps). This makes sense as having an ac system that works great at idle means you are just burning gas in the other 90% of times you are using it and actually driving.