Here are some race venues and sanctioning bodies see if you can find the one
that does not use an alternator..
Cart
F1
Indy car
Winston cup
Alms
Scca
Pro rally
Off road trucks.. Walker Evan and all those guys..
Daytona 500 and others like it
24 hrs Daytona
24 hrs Le Mans
12 hrs sebring
indy 500
any Grand prix race you pick..
any Cart race you pick again..
The list is endless they all run an alternator and failures are very rare. Maybe
have to do a better job of installing it, use high quality belts, pulleys and
brackets and have no failures. The most common failure is to use passenger car
pulleys and belts along with the drive ratios that are suitable for low rpm use
in a street car but not a race car. Most street cars run the alternator very
fast compared to the crankshaft because the engine spends most of it's life
below 4000 rpm. If you run the same parts on a race car they will fail
eventually because the drive speed is too high. After market pulleys are made to
reduce the speeds to a realistic level and then the system is just as reliable
as those found on new cars. Do you worry about flipping a belt or an alternator
failure every time you start your street car? I sure don't..
Dave
Benn wrote:
>
> Well, one of the first things that happened to me before I removed the
> alternator permanently was the alt./waterpump belt was thrown, which
> would not have been a problem except that it then entangled in the
> backup waterpump-only belt, throwing it off as well. Of course there
> are other electrical and mechanical failures that an alternator can
> suffer, some benign, some not (and as any racer knows, just because you
> can't think of the failure mode doesn't mean it won't
> happen)....Basically if you don't need a part that can fail and lead to
> other problems, why would you use it?
> Benn
>
> Tell me again what can go wrong? >
> > Keith
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