Your fabrications look great, per usual.

*IF* you find that you’re having a problem with your AC once it’s all together it could be because the condenser isn’t tilted enough. Many years ago someone wrote that a condenser is different than a radiator in that the contents of the condenser go through a phase change; what enters is a gas and what exits is a liquid. The author said that the practical consequence of this is that a condenser won’t work if it’s laid flat. You actually need gravity (and a tilt) to allow the liquid refrigerant collect at the exit port or else there is just frothy bubbly useless fluid throughout the system. A water (or oil) radiator is different because the fluid inside is always a liquid. As long as such a system has a decent pump, a radiator could be mounted upright, flat, or even upside down and it’s likely to still work fine.
Anyway, the 100 dollar question for a condenser is “what amount of inclination is ‘enough?’”
Apparently you don’t need much. I didn’t do a search but I feel like I gave these same words of warning to Brett pretty long ago and he had already committed to just like 10 or 15 degrees of inclination already and just went with that. And now years have passed and he has recently shared that his car is running great and apparently blowing ice cold AC.
So… apparently whatever the inclination of Brett’s condenser is is enough. (I was worried that it wouldn’t be.) But just kind of file this discussion away in the back of your head in case you have trouble with your AC. And/or maybe we can measure and learn exactly what inclination Brett used and make sure you have at least that.
And that’s about the limit of what I know on that topic.
