Simon Favre wrote:
>
> Susan wrote:
>
> >Simon - you are right. It won't work in a 750/101 Alfa, to the best of
> >our knowledge. Real pain in the arse. I was waiting and hoping somebody
> >had a magic solution, but alas, there doesn't seem to be any good way of
> >doing this. It's even worse with a Webered/veloce headered car too.
>
> The 750/101 Veloces (and ersatz Veloces) also tip the motor over towards
> the exhaust side, making even less room by the steering box. There's
> barely enough room for the crummy old generator.
>
> There was a discussion on the Alfa Digest on this subject a while ago.
> Supposedly Jim Hayes did this using a Japanese tractor (no lie)
> alternator that was small in size, but large in price.
>
Jim Wiseman of the Giulietta Register in the UK says a Citroen 2CV
alternator will work, even on a Veloce. I'll be over in APril and plan
to verify it. I gave up on the Japanese units - about 5 mm too big! I
run a Bosch generator which survives 7500 RPM.
Safely back from New Delhi, but left two days before the "All India AUto
Expo" -s should've been better than Detroit!
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Jim Hayes Winchester, MA, USA
hayes@mediaone.net http://www.fotec.com/jim.htm
jeh@fotec.com http://www.fotec.com/
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false!
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