Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting Alternator?

Originally posted by bigMoneyRacing:

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Maybe if I posted about how my neons were killing the alternator this thread would elicit some response?

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Get better Neons!!!

Originally posted by bigMoneyRacing:

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Or if I asked about what brand yellow paint I should use to dress it up?

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VHT makes a nice high temp paint, but I'm not sure of the actually horsepower gains from their yellow version. Might want to check a Honda board or two on that one.

Originally posted by bigMoneyRacing:

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Come on, surely someone knows the nominal v range for our alternators...

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Read some of the other post in this thread!


I'm just joking!! I figured someone else would do it sooner or later, so I figured I would since they hadn't.

The problems you are seeing are the very first signs of your alt going out. I know of one other SVT owner that had a decent stero, nothing fancy but more than stock, and his ran like this for several months. His was still under warrenty and he hounded them forever over it. Since they only test the output of the alt at idle, they never found a problem. Yours may not do it now, but if you get the rpms in the upper ranges, like say 5-6K, you will notice that your battery light will come on. Soon, it will come on at lower rpms, like 3500 and 4000. It is somewhere around this time that you really cannot wait any longer to replace the slowly dying alt.