I'm not sure if the compressors are interchangable, but here's a website that might know. They have a great post about troubleshooting 1995 civic a/c. Mine was doing the same thng described in the post; it would only work on warm days, if the car interior got too hot, it wouldn't work until the next morning.
http://autoforums.carjunky.com/Autom...t_hot_!!_P887/