Has anyone put there altenator on the oposite side were the power steering pump is

anyone got any suggestions

 

the 4x4 saff had something on the other side, think ot was the p/s pump though

 

ye thats coming off and i have the blank for the block, i havnt tried any brackets up yet

 

anyone

 

air con is mounted that side, the factory mounts for that may help you out...

the later model ps was mounted under the alternator on multigroove belt type

 

this has been done on a greek escos drag car

 

ye ive seen that but couldnt see much of what he`s done

 

prob a case of just maker up a braket

use one of the other engines that is out of the car so its esier

 

ye thats my plan just looking for ideas

 

Ive done 2 now mate for both Mine and Lees Westy Kit cars. One using a standard Cossie alternator and one a very small Denso one. Denso one needed a new pully and I got a fancy adjuster bar from a friend who had some laser cut.

Really easy using the power steering pump mount bolts on the inlet side.

Made the brackets and fitted new adjuster brackets underneath.

Only watchout is you have to keep it really low which means the angle of the belt causes it to rub on the crank sensor. Easy small mod to that though sorts this problem.

Stu

 

cheers stu when i get round to do it, i might pm you

 

dont supose you have any pics, im making a start on mine now

 

I'm interested in this aswell Wenny


Quick photo Stu sent me a while back when he was dong the conversion.





Hopefully he will supply us with a finished in situ pic

 

Funny you asked I was looking and moving some pics off my phone last night!

Not sure if you guys are still running power steering as I used the mount holes on the block that the PS bracket usually goes into.

Basically the alternator hangs upside down from its main mounts and the adjuster bar is fixed to the bottom of the new mount (if that makes sense)

 

Nice bracket

 

See above!

Nice adjuster bracket yes and supplied by Pete (WD Pro) too!......TOP GEEZER!

 

Why would you want to remove the power steering to put an alternator in its place?

 

What power steering?

 

the thread starter said has anyone put an alternator where the power steering pump is. So i want to know why you would want to do that?

 

to make the car lighter and to stop the alternator overheating as is the case now.

steve

 

Rich the alternator is suffering badly from heat from the turbo hence him wanting to move it to the other side of the engine as he is doing away with the power steering setup.

 

Would an alternator drop bracket not help with the heat issue or has that already been done?

 

the 4wd p/s pump is under the alternator turbo side, so tou can put the alternator where the air con pump would sit or where a 2wd p/s pump would sit and still remain p/s as its still on its original postion

but i think hes removing p/s anyhow

 

The setup on his engine is basically a full 2wd setup, alternator on turbo side of engine and p/s pump the other side.

 

ye doing away with power steering and putting altenator on the colder side as paul16v says, if i find the steering to heavy ill put a corsa c elec pump on column

does anyone have a air con pump mounting bracket as thats under the inlet isnt it

 

if you have a full 2wd setup why not have an rs500 drop bracket made to drop alternator even further i had one made for my old escos to drop the alternator 20mm lower than it sat on a 500

never had any alternator issues due to heat on mine and by fook it got a hard time

 

wenny you might want to make your own bracket as the air con one is cast and weighs about half a ton!

steve

 

ye was thinking that steve but was going to use that as a base to work from, might just make 1 from scratch

kev it has the lower one on but its done 2 alts lately, so with the p/s coming off im going to put it over that side

 

anyone wanting to do this, ive found a easy way to do it, us the base part of a 2wd power steering pump bracket, upside down with the block blank bolted back on, job done with a spacer on the long altenator bolt

 

if your not using power steering, i think the p100 rack is the one to use

 

ye j i heard that, is it a quick rack compred to a normal non p/s rack and do they mount the same

 

i think its a similar ratio to the cossie rack mate, pretty sure they mount the same, get some funky billet bushes while your there!

 

there allready in mate, with rose joint track rod ends

 

had a drop bracket on my cos but it still cooked alternators, 3 in 4500 miles

good idea mate

 

cool!