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Originally Posted by jamesqf
I would, since I hardly ever use it anyway. Maybe a couple of times a year, when I have to cross the San Joaquin valley in the afternoon. Unless it's hellishly hot, I much prefer having the windows open and adapting my body to the ambient temperature to sitting in a climate-controlled box - which usually means a stream of frigid air blowing on my chest - and then shocking my system with an abrupt change when I get out.
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I drove for a couple of summers in a dark maroon exterior/black interior Nissan 240SX with no A/C in 105 degree Modesto heat; I'll take the A/C. :-)
As far as gains from removing the system: if you leave it off, you're only driving the outside of the clutch (which probably doesn't have any more drag than the A/C bypass pulley), so a little extra weight notwithstanding, I'd rather have the option of the cooling/dehumidifying that A/C provides.