Large Truck Alternators

[Silica 10+ year member]

Tell me if this is a bad idea or not but i was thinking of going to the local junkyard and seeing if i can pull out a large alternator or 2 from like 5.0 truck or large, like a suburban or pickup, they probably have an big *** alternator like 135-150 right?

Would it be hard to strap the two together and drop them on the engine? I dunno the whole deal with alternators, but how about electrical? Will it be able to handle the larger alternators? Are larger alternators able to just strap on or do i need like a specail computer chip or osmething so it doesn't **** up the car?

Thanx

Tim

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[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

I'm wondering about the same thing ...

Except, I'd be taking a Mazda truck engine and dropping it into a small Mazda car ...

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- Steve

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

Wonder if you could just have 2 alternators, one to run a battery and electrical for the car, then another alt connected to another battery, then run the amps off of that battery.

Seems like that would work.

 

[taylor 10+ year member]

all my buddy did on his 93 stang was rip out the old factory one and put in a 180 amp delco form a truck......some bracket mod was required....but it definetly made a huge diff....

 

[B&R Innovation2 10+ year member]

bracket mods and wiring harnests are the hardest thing to fine...generally they gotta be customized.

As for multible altenators...it works but you ahve to be good at it.