I have the same dilema kinda I have a compresor I took of a 96 teg (since I used to work at a bodyshop, this car came wrecked from a 4 car crash) and I just have it sitting around, this winter I'm thinking I'm going to take it off because I don't use it much but here in cali it get hot in the summer so I don't know....well long story short does it make that much of a diffrence???