Does anyone have any pics of all the brackets that come with the v8 archie kit for mounting the air conditioning compressor? Is all the brackets with the kit used since the kit supposedly works for all kinds if a/c units?

There are 2 methods of mounting the AC.
The front engine mount has 2 mounting ears on the side (right side in pic) and the A/C compressor bolts directly to those ears on some installs.



There is also a supplied additional bracket like this. This is used when you need to shim the A/C compressor further to the front or if you need to shift it up or down (but you have to cut the ears off the engine bracket to use the bolt on bracket). Here is a picture of the Archie engine mount (A/C mount ears removed) and the bolt on A/C mount:



For my personal SBC swaps, I used the 4cyl A/C compressors and didn't need to use the additional bolt on bracket. On the last 2 customer cars, they used the V6 A/C compressors and had to use the additional bracket. So I suspect the bolt on bracket is for the V6 compressors and the 4 cyl compressors bolt directly to the Archie engine bracket.

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Thanks for the info.

One more question. Are there any brackets used at the back of the compressor or is the two bolts up front good enough to hold the compressor on?

No rear support brackets come with the kit, but I fab up some on most of my installs. Here is a picture of the most recent one:

As far as I remember I used my V6 compressor with the direct bolt to bracket and no shims. Worked for over 10yrs now. But it is a poor design as the belt barely touches the A/C pulley and belt usually slips when it gets wet no matter how tight I get it.

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Compressors are fairly generic. Doesn't matter if it came off of a 4, 6 or 8 cylinder engine. They interchange between engines. It's all about the mounting and connections...