Alternator wiring issues

[fholla 10+ year member]

Can someone please tell me how to wire up this alternator correctly! This is a Street Wires alternator for GM vehicles. Street Wires doesnt sell them any more but they sent me the little info they had. Are the gold posts positive, negative, or 1 positive and 1 negative? What are the 2 small silver post for that are in front of the gold ones? Is the small silver post on the back of the alternator for the mounting bracket?

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[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

mine had one power wire and an exciter wire.... which had a snap-in harness

that looks like a nightmare

 

[djjdnap 10+ year member]

yea man i would attempt to help, but that looks crazy, take it to autozone, they might be able to help, if there not assholes like the ones i deal wt. THey guy told me a smaller pulley wouldn't have an affect on my alt, WTF.

but usually alts are self grounding(earth ground), so there is usually just a wiring harness, and a +post.

I've never seen an alt with a -post before.