Tiny Alternators? Hide one? Disguise one??

I have a pal who works with forklifts. I'll ask him about the alts on them. I know they're small, but mighty.

 

Your Chili is mighty too!!! MMMM....

 

Okay, I took a couple pictures last night of where this thing pretty much HAS to go. It's the only place I really have room.

YES there is space down by the pan in this picture, but there won't be when the front of the frame is done. The shocks will be mounted down there.

This is the early Mopar alternator I'm going to try to use. It will sit higher up which will mean it will have to come forward about an inch to clear the block which means so will the pulley.

Hopefully this clears up the reason for the thread.

 

That looks good. I still prefer the small Nippondensos, if you still need more room, but they look less trad.

 

Wrong. Are you new here? ...I put thousands of miles on that car. You do not have to pull the trans to change the belt. You simply remove the 3 torque converter bolts, slide the torque conveter back and replace the belt. Have you ever worked on an early 80's FWD car with v-belts? I have, and changing a belt on my set up is MUCH eaiser... and a small 'price to pay' to hide the alternator.

Perhaps my idea of practical is not the same as yours. Someone told me it wasn't 'practical' to have a 8 inch chop, 6 carbs and bias ply tires too... I never had a problem.

EDIT: ...and NO SPARE TIRE!!! Man was I asking for it!

 

Hey Scooter, I can't think of the hambers name, but he drives the 39 ford pu with the comet bed on the back, it's rootbeer colored... he's using a kabota lawnmower altenator, it's really slick and small, like maybe 4" around. He was at the Rust Revival, his pickup is in a lot of pics on those threads.

here he is with his truck.

He said he didn't mock up the alt on the engine when he built his frame, so he had to come up with a solution. and it wouldn't fit on the top with the blower on it.

 

Russco's truck.

 

I used the small Denso unit so I could drop it down inside the frame rail. If I would have painted it black, it would hardly be noticeable. I plan on using this same basic deal when I pull this sbc and replace it with a 392 later this year.

 

Ok I admit I didn't read every post but if you want a SMALL alternator look at Honda cars Honda Civics have very small 1 wire 65 amp units we used for stock car racing I would guess other models would have similar units.

 

Scooter,
I don't see anything wrong with the last picture you put up. I should have gotten in earlier, though. For those with room forward, most alternators don't care which way they turn. You can flip them around to face backwards and hang out in fromt of the motor. Resist the temptation to couple one directly to the crank, though. If you get rpm happy at all, it won't live long.