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> From: Tony Rhodes <ARhodes@compuserve.com>
> To: jmwagner <jmwagner@greenheart.com>; INTERNET:triumphs@autox.team.net;
Phil Barnes <peb3@cornell.edu>
> Subject: generator/alternator
> Date: Saturday, August 08, 1998 9:26 AM
>
>
> Message text written by INTERNET:triumphs-owner@autox.team.net
> >Why build up the generator and then make a smaller pulley? Seems
like
> you're
> defeating some of your efforts?
>
> I would understand keeping the generator stock and putting a smaller
pulley
> on...
> if you're just vintage racing with, at most, headlamps, etc... but
it
> doesn't
> make sense to me for a full rally car driving through harsh conditions at
> night...
>
>
>
> - --Justin
> <
>
> Justin, a smaller pulley will give MORE rpms and thereby give more
> power output. AFAIK....
Tony is correct. Several of us have fit LARGER pulleys to our alternators
to slow them down at racing speeds.
Irv Korey
74 TR6 CF22767U
66 TR4A CT52499 (former EP car, going back next year as a vintage racer)
Highland Park, IL
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