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Post by scottmichaels46x on Mar 10, 2015 9:15:02 GMT -5
I've never ran an alternator and a dead battery has never taken me out.
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Post by DemolitionMissions on Mar 10, 2015 9:48:27 GMT -5
Wonder if there are different statistics based from fullsize drivers and compact drivers. As far as having alternator problems take them out.
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Post by STROMI 121 on Mar 10, 2015 11:03:47 GMT -5
I knocked my alternator off a 94 Toyota Camry with my front bumper. It did not take me out though.
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Post by Hillbilly Racing .30-30 on Mar 11, 2015 0:27:46 GMT -5
Have run the same crank, water pump, alternator, serpentine belt setup since day 1 and never a problem other than tossing a belt. All on full size with GM motor/tranny combos. Have bent, twisted, crossed, and touched about anything you can think of. Burned up a distributor switch once when pinched against the firewall. Burned up the wiring to the electric rad fan up to the fuseable link once because the hood bent funny. But thats it. Never been able to point to the alternator and say "yup, thats what took me out". I will still run one with no expectation of problems.
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Post by boom61 on Mar 11, 2015 1:30:20 GMT -5
Wonder if there are different statistics based from fullsize drivers and compact drivers. As far as having alternator problems take them out. You may be on to something there. Many Fwd cars have the alternator right up front, I can think of a handful off the top of my head. And even though they would most likely be fuel injected and use more power I would still go without the alternator if possible. This past year on my escort I removed the alternator completely, and didn't run serp. belt. (timing belt driven water pump) I wrapped the crap out of the power wire with electrical tape and zip tied it between the valve cover and intake on the back of the engine. I don't even think the battery was fully charged the day of the show. loaded up, drove around the pits for a little while, ran my heat, had 3 stoppages that I shut my car off and restarted it, drove off the track onto the trailer, drove it off the trailer the next day, drove around a bit, pulled it back on the trailer. ...never lost power. The only thing that I didn't have drawing power that most normally would is a fan. I decided to pull the fan for clearance reasons. I run a single tractor battery from Rural KIng, I believe its around 800cca. Unless you are running stupid long heats, it is not required with a good battery so I would rather get rid of some wiring and get a little spending money from the core guy with it. If you have always ran one, and never had issues, and thats just what you do... to each there own. |
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Post by rhull1977 on Mar 13, 2015 10:17:04 GMT -5
I run my alternator wire though a piece of last years fuel line. I use steel line with short connections. I'm thinking about zip tying the wires to the valve cover because not all of the shows I run allow carb protectors. Or make a bracket to bolt to the valve cover. |
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Post by albop03 on Aug 12, 2016 10:15:07 GMT -5
Old post but it happed to me last weekend, in mini truck, my ranger with a 1.9, alternator bracket broke, pushed the alternator onto the distributor cap and the cap broke, had i had a distributor protector it would still be running, i ended up in 3rd the very next hit took out the guy in second
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Post by stellis124 on Aug 12, 2016 13:38:43 GMT -5
I had a 90 ford escort back many moons ago ran my very first derby and needless to say I didn't know much about anything derby wise and I shut the car off because some guy had a fire in his car. went to restart and click. after the derby I did a teardown and the alternator had not been charging the batter the fuse was still in tact so I cut the main wire at the alternator and wired it directly to the battery and it charged the battery perfectly. went out and won the next derby with that car.
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Post by beefybuilt104 on Aug 12, 2016 15:00:21 GMT -5
I ran a bubble Vic a few years back. Guy got up on my hood and pushed the alternator into the upper intake plenum and broke the intake. That took me out.
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Post by beefybuilt104 on Aug 12, 2016 15:00:45 GMT -5
I ran a bubble Vic a few years back. Guy got up on my hood and pushed the alternator into the upper intake plenum and broke the intake. That took me out. Stock 4.6 in the car |
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Post by kj53 on Aug 17, 2016 22:03:30 GMT -5
My second year back in 95 ran a 70s Ltd wire arched and started a fire done for the day if I had a fuse everything would of been fine but since than just ran 2 batteries and no problems since
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Post by smashbob12 on Aug 18, 2016 20:39:56 GMT -5
had a charging issue bite me in the ass friday aug 12th. quit charging and didn't have my usual battery. 39 cars i was 6th car left running when it died.  |
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Post by smashincwa on Aug 21, 2016 15:54:40 GMT -5
folded the alt back enough to short out on the valve over. this has happened here also. |
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Post by hook88 on Aug 29, 2016 13:24:36 GMT -5
Had a buddy get put out when his hood bent funny and shorted the wiring out.... A fusable link would have fixed that I had the same thing happen to me 2 years ago I now run a fusible link haven't had any problems since |
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