Big 3 Upgrade: Planning Stage (Input Encouraged)

[The Architect]

Originally Posted by talnlnky

if somebody had the means to fabricate custom brackets that would probably be the best & cheapest way as you can often go to junkyards and find alts for under $20... I remember a few years back in Spokane,WA there was a junkyard that would sell you alts for $8... tho you had to remove it yourself.

The yaris/echo has been out long enough to have a few cars in the junkyard by now. Tho... if I was going to do custom bracket... I'd be tempted to just pull one from a truck that had like a 100-140amp alt.

one drawback to dual alts would be more load on the engine than a single alt, thus lower mpg's... prolly less than 1mpg difference tho.


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Architect
I'm starting to wonder if there is something weird with your car... you dropped cable a while back and then said your voltage was funny after that.... Did you have your battery tested.... maybe you have a bad cell in your battery that is causing a wierd issue.... constantly trying to charge thus sucking amperage, thus lowering voltage... i dunno... be worth checking out tho.

Yea when i did that I essentially grounded the stock alternator which mustve messed up some of the internals causing it to charge poorly.

My yellow top sits at 12.75 cold and the alt charges normally.

Ill just take my battery to autozone for a battery test but a hot test would be misleading so idk