I have a silver top zetec turbo engine in my series one, and come up against a problem with the alternator, thing is the engine came with an alternator (its Dan Stanoe's old engineout of his S2) now the engines in the alt is in the way of the water pump outlet with a short belt, or catches the anti roll bar mount and the tensioner will not fit, any one got any suggestions on what alt/bracket/tensioner set up I should use that will clear the water outlet and not catch the roll bar mount.
Thanks

 

maybe a frst alternator bracket and alternator?

on my black top turbo I've had to use a alternator bracket lowering bracket, thats allowed me to use the erst alternator. Bracket came from ebay, zetecpink cabby seller or something like that, gav from tyne and wear

 

Cheers studabear, forgot to mention that I think it has an 1800 zetec water pump as I it doesn't use an idler set up, just triangulated, bottom pulley, water pump and alternator.

 

my mates blacktop with silvertop water pump uses a frst alt bracket and alternator, with belt in triangular set up.

I have a frst bracket and alternator if you need them?

 

As Stu said, either a FRST bracket or a drop bracket of Gav

 

What did you put in on ebay to find the alt bracket lowering plate ?

 

Message him he will supply you just the drop bracket.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181123502964

 

Thanks studabear, I have sent him a message.

 

you could also save yourself some room if you used the bosch alternator from a fiesta 1.3 endura engined mk5 fiesta, as its 70amp as per rst but more importantly its got no external fan to chafe through any hoses plus its a modern design in comparison to the rst one and comes with a decent bolt on heat sheald. just have to swap the pulley and two washers off the cvh alternator and grind a little bit off the mounting lug, mine cost Ł15 from the breakers

 

Rapidonion
Thanks, I might try that, but I will need to use the pulley off the zetec alt as it is the ribbed belt type.

 

it already comes with the zetec type pulley