Big 3 + Pics

[nickk678 10+ year member]

Well, knukonceptz stuff came in yesterday, so I did the big 3. Took about 4-5 hours (includes all cutting, crimping, and soldering), but that's because the wonderful engineers at Chrysler/Mitsubishi put the alternator in a terrible place. I could only access it from under the car (unless I wanted to take the top half of the motor apart) and my hand was contorted all over the place. I left all the stock wires in place and just added these on top of them.

Here ya go.

Before

Alternator is stashed down here on passenger side crammed against firewall.

Straight down shot.

What I had to work with from underneath the car.

Here's the stuff.

Crimping

Soldering

One down, 5 to go.

One to the engine block. Sanded it down first, of course.

To the alternator

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[nickk678 10+ year member]

Done

Used the stock grounding point on the body. Sanded the paint off too.

Shot of the full bay after.

Volt reading.

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

nice....just found out i was getting severe voltage drops with my setup when the gains were up so big 3 here i come

 

[CRXican 10+ year member]

can't wait to do mine

how much wire did you order for it?

and it doesn't look like you even bought battery terminals

 

[nickk678 10+ year member]

I ordered 14 feet and have about 3-4 left over.

I have stinger battery terminals on order. They won't be here until next week.

 

[JeffyZ33 10+ year member]

Buy some wire loom from walmart/advanced/napa/autozone, to put around that wire so it doesn't stick out as much.

Looks good though, I'm about to go do mine //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[nickk678 10+ year member]

Yeah I will. I had a ton of black wire loom from when we did an engine swap in my old 'stang, but it was only for 4ga //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[kicker06 10+ year member]

Is 15v at the battery?

What was it before?

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

i like the way it looks dont cover up its beauty!

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

That's what it's charging at now.

 

[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

i got the same boxers

 

[dalucifer 10+ year member]

nice fluke

 

[nickk678 10+ year member]

Is 15v at the battery?
What was it before?

I assume that meter rounds up. It would flicker from 15 down to 14 every couple seconds. Before, it would stay at 14 and flicker up to 15 every once in awhile.

 

[thatkidbob 10+ year member]

I'm going to buy a torch to solder my 1/0 ring terminals...

what kind are you using? what would you recommend?

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

looks good man, blue wire is sexy.