I am going to rewire my car.

The question is:
I cant seem to figure out how to connect my alternator to the car properly. Help?

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> I cant seem to figure out how to connect my alternator to the car properly. Help?


Bolts perhaps?

You need to give us some information. What are you working on? Do you have an IC regulator or an external regulator?

Coincidentally, I'm about to perform quadruple bypass surgery, but I'm not sure where the heart is located.

More info, please. Did you take an old alternator out? What year is your car? Be re-wiring do you really mean re-wiring, or replacing the alternator and battery?

Before you re-wire your car you obviously have some other issues to work out. But for those who really are going to re-wire check out this website [www.isispower.com] they have a really cool new multi-plex system. This is the way I'm going for any future wiring projects.

Bill

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Sorry, the problem i a having is that the a$$ we bought the car from removed all the wiring from the car and re-did it himself.

He bypassed the VERY necessary external voltage regulator to hook up the alternator. By "hook up" I meant wiring wise. The alternator has 4 plugs, the ground, the battery, and 2 tabs labeled "S" and "L". There is an internal voltage regulator. How do I wire it?

If it has an internal regulator why is the external one VERY necessary? But here is a link for the alt wiring.

Alt Upgrade

These types of things can be found with a search.

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Richardson, TX

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mechanical music....
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1977 280Z R.I.P. 6/9/96
1977 280Z stock with custom rust

It was VERY necessary because the alternator that was hooked up needed one, and we didn't have one. We got one that has an internal voltage regulator because we fried the one that didn't have one.

I still have the blister to prove it....

When asking for help on here it`s a good idea to provide all the info you can in the first post, it helps people diagnose your problems. People are less likely to help if they have to keep asking questions to get the pertinent info. Just a FYI.

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Richardson, TX

"I`ve tried nothing and I`m all out of ideas"

shifting and drifting...
mechanical music....
adrenaline surge!!!!


1977 280Z R.I.P. 6/9/96
1977 280Z stock with custom rust

For people who are unwilling to read the instructions, rewiring a car is not something to undertake.

Seriously, I can't tell you how many times I've resurrected a stocker simply by REMOVING all the 'improved wiring' P.O.'s have installed out of sheer ignorance to electrical principles and lack of reading the FSM.

Most times, the only thing needed is new connectors and maybe 2 or 3" of pigtail spliced onto wherever some meathead cut/modified/'improved' the existing harness.

I once spent two days removing extensive wiring where a guy ran wires for the headlights, etc... Once it put it all back to stock, and fixed one or two glaring basic errors well known in the early Z's...it fired up and ran, and had ALL it's lights! Never did figure out why they decided it needed all new wiring up front. It worked BETTER with the STOCK stuff than the hodgepodge clusterphuck that was in there after they were done with it!

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