[FC] Alt

[Joel McGregor]

The Buick Regal donor car for mine was all stock GM and had a short jumper wire from the hot alternator post to the VR.  I've never seen that stock before.  Everything I've seen up to that had a long wire that connected back up in the harness a couple of feet.  My Buick short wire works fine.
Joel McGregor

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From: corvanatics-bounces at corvair.org [corvanatics-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of N2VZD at aol.com [N2VZD at aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:07 AM
To: pushrod2176 at yahoo.com; corvanatics at corvair.org
Subject: Re: [FC] Alt

if you coil up about 16 inches of that wire and tape it , you should  get
rid of that syndrome. otherwise it will take off ok after a quick run up to
@1600 rpm.
on my coupe , i put in a heavy duty "plastic/ resin thingy "tie post near
where a late would have it to tie my extra power leads to the front. i ran
the  red wire to this from the alt reg terminal. this took care of that. i
found some  nice heavy duty tie posts on modern GM cars in the junkyard , that
are perfect  for corvair B plus tie points. they mount with a screw tab ,
and have a number  12 screw post that is strong.
i am running 100 amp alternators on mine for all the extra loads i have.
the truck has had this setup for many years now working great. extra
headlight  option (12 volt aircraft landing lites in hi beam , ham radios and heated
seats  )  do fine.  i put a voltmeter in my spyder dash in place of head
temp. mini motometer in place of boost gauge.
regards , tim colson
63 rampy
64 A/C coupe
61? crampy
61 lakewood   all vehicles are cobbed to my likings.

_www.cnycorvair.com_ (http://www.cnycorvair.com)



In a message dated 7/14/2010 8:55:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
pushrod2176 at yahoo.com writes:

As I  understand it if you run that short jumper the alt won't sense a low
enough  volt drop and won't charge at lower rpms. I used the two now unused
wires in  the old regulator harness jumped them where the reg was and
connected one to  the #1lead on the connector and the other to the main alt post.
Now there is  enough of a drop for the alt to sense and once the engine
starts I don't get  the gen light coming on.


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