samh_08

As the title says, I have stock truck front drive accessories from an 05 chevy truck and the alternator is huge. What are my options and how much would I gain by switching to that setup. Keep in mind how the wiring harness is on an 05 truck. Let me know, thanks.

Sam

garys 68

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In order to change the alternator location, to the vette or F body setup, you'll also have to change all the acessories and crank pulley to match the spacing.
There are some aftermarket relocation brackets, but most are for F body. You can try looking around and see if any can be adapted to the truck spacing.
Here's what I ended up doing.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/conversio...rive-done.html

samh_08

So just using the fbody alternator in place of the truck one wouldnt gain me any clearance?

LSX-affair

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Hi, I saw this a while ago on v8tvshow.com. On their GTO build they had the same problem, click on this link to see what they did.

http://v8tvshow.com/content/view/606/118/

ramairws6

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Well? Did you fire this thing yet or what!?!?

G-Body

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Switching to the f-body alt will gain some, but not a lot. How much are you hitting by?

samh_08

Kind of hard to tell, but I would say 1/2". How much smaller is the f-body alt?

lsxmalibu

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I use a s-10 alternator, it looks smaller.

samh_08

How is it wired in and what year is it specifically off of?

lsxmalibu

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it has the stock 4 wire plug. I think this one is off a 1999 s-10 4cyl. for reference, its 5 1/4" from the flat area on the bracket that says GND to the top of the alt.

org

lsxmalibu, what accessory setup is that? Would it be a standard truck setup without the PS? If so, what did you use for idler pullies and belt? Thanks.

Pop N Wood

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Get a Denso alternator out of a import. Some of them are a good 2 inches smaller in diameter. You just have to match up the belt pulley then build some brackets to align the pulley with the rest of your stuff.

I pulled one off a 91 celica with a pulley off a supra and mounted it to the side of the motor in my 240z

I mounted mine off to the side cause I had no other accesories. but that denso alt should easily fit above the motor where the truck ones mount.

lsxmalibu

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stock truck without powersteering....homemade idler added

org

Looks good, did you use the stock belt or a shorter one? Also, it looks like a car intake; are you using a truck waterpump? I have a L92 that I may have to use the car intake on, depending on clearance. I'd like to stay with the truck alternator location and remove the power steering.

Thanks.

lsxmalibu

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shorter belt, truck intake, truck pump, you can use a car intake with the truck brackets, there is a write-up here some place

org

Thanks.

samh_08

Would anyone by chance know how much I would gain by changing to a F-body alt. Also would need to know how to wire it into my harness (my 05 harness controls the voltage regulator)

Delbert62

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I had the same problem on my C3 corvette swap. I cut 3/4" out of the truck mount between the top mounting hole and the bottom of the alt and had it weled back together. Works perfect!

cutlass_455

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https://ls1tech.com/forums/conversio...aq-thread.html

Some helpful info.

chevelle598bb

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Modify the truck alt mount