Alternator conversion

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

Workin' great.  My VDO shows it charging the system at +14v, only three 
wires to hook up (one going to the idiot light) and has its fan and voltage 
regulator located internally.  The only thing it lacks is a way to adjust 
the belt tension (I'm kinda stumped on a clean way to do this), so in the 
mornings I'll sometimes hear it squeal when starting up the engine (maybe a 
stock engine wouldn't be as bad?).  The alternator is roughly half the 
length of the stock generator and a tad smaller in diameter so there's no 
need for cutting up the cooling tin and generator mount.  I'll take 
pictures this weekend and try to put them up on my web page next week.  
It's a very easy conversion.

     Toby Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L for sale
     Portland, Oregon
     http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


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Subject: Re: Pertronix--HELP!
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    6/19/97 10:07 PM


Toby Erkson wrote:
>
> Standard color scheme: Red to positive coil terminal, black to negative
> coil terminal.  I have one on my baby and with the alternator conversion

How did the alternator conversion workout?  I would like to know if
you came up with any methods or procedures that differed from those
that I outlined a little while back.

The ignition coil should have a + and - on it somewhere.  I believe that
15 is the positive, but I would not swear to it.
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