Re: [DML] Is there an easy alternator model swap?

[jwit6@xxxx]

I just put in a 100 amp alternator from Summit racing. Black powder coat. 
89.99 outright and no core charge. Also avail in chrome. This is a one wire 
unit. No bulbs to worry about but you sacrifice the idiot light. Installation 
required the removal of approx 3/4 of an inch of the back side of alternator 
pivot casting. Easily carved away with a hack saw. It's soft aluminum and 
easy to work. Wrap the unit in tape to avoid filling it with metal. Only 
other mod was the use of the Mr. Gasket chrome alternator bracket from a 350 
Chevy. $12.00 at Autozone. Cut it to length, and offset it 3/4 of an inch 
towards the front of the car with spacers to a small fabricated 1/4 inch 
thick alum bracket that goes to the original bracket pivot stud on the 
engine. Bracket goes to the back side of the alt, not the front ala GM. While 
you're at it, take a look at how the alternator wires get back to the 
coil/connector box. They must have been drunk....