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I'm going to keep doing some little things while the wife is still unemployed to try and keep the ball rolling on my engine swap. One thing that has always bugged me since I've owned the car is the way that the alternator brackets and pulleys were all pieced together with hardware store nuts and bolts. Here's a pic of the way it looks now.
I had a single groove crank pulley that was on the used crate motor that I bought, so I needed a singe water pump pulley to match. After starting a thread and looking on Ebay, I just bit the bullet and bought a new one from BPE. While I had them on the phone I bought the correct alternator kit with all new bolts, brackets and spacers.
I also bought a new alternator from Summit with a single groove pulley. It's a 100 amp from Tuff Stuff but uses the existing voltage regulator. It's powder coated black so that should match the rest of the engine pretty well!
I'm going to keep doing some little things while the wife is still unemployed to try and keep the ball rolling on my engine swap. One thing that has always bugged me since I've owned the car is the way that the alternator brackets and pulleys were all pieced together with hardware store nuts and bolts. Here's a pic of the way it looks now.
I had a single groove crank pulley that was on the used crate motor that I bought, so I needed a singe water pump pulley to match. After starting a thread and looking on Ebay, I just bit the bullet and bought a new one from BPE. While I had them on the phone I bought the correct alternator kit with all new bolts, brackets and spacers.
I also bought a new alternator from Summit with a single groove pulley. It's a 100 amp from Tuff Stuff but uses the existing voltage regulator. It's powder coated black so that should match the rest of the engine pretty well!