Seen many posts lately on swapping alternators to higher amp ones.
I did some web surfing and found this
http://www.caraudiomag.com/technical...ae_alternator/
What do you guys think?
Or did I miss the thread where this was already discussed?

 

yes i have seen that before but it was for the older body trucks. i did not know they made one for our trucks. the thing is that the people that are doing that are using alot of power for their systems. so i do not believe that any of us need something like that unless we are trying to put a bad a** system in our trucks. it is a sweet setup but i feel not needed unless you nave major power needs.

 

They are available for the DMax too... http://www.pacificp.com/cgi-bin/cat/...ternators.html

 

yea shaq's escalade has that. but i wonder how much HP would it suck up

 

Having 2 alternators would rob HP? How much?

 

Well only if they are being loaded up against. Like have you ever fan something that pulls an assload of amperage constantly...like leaving the A/C on and the LS1 fans blowing at full blast while running down the freeway? I can feel a large drag when hitting a smaller alternator like that.

If you ran dual 200A's (one for stereo, one for acc) and had everything on like fans, a/c, headlights, aux lighting, couple JL 1000/1's, a 300/4, a 300/1 playing some loud *** music, on at the same time you'd pull some mad amperage...that's about the only time I could see needing two alt's...then again you can just run that 200A and a few yellow top's and be okay.

Dual alt's look bad ***, when I get my DMax I am gonna try to order just the brackets for the extra alt so I can run a duals just to say "ha, look what I got"

 

I don't like the way they made you remove a brace on the passenger side fender for the second battery. That is critical to the integrity of the truck in a frontal crash. It helps keep the finder from getting to far out of place, like in the passenger compartment or something like that.

Other that that .. I wouldn't see needing it unless you were pulling some made amperage like hit man said.

 

On factory equipped dual battery setups, you don't have the brace anyway. I understand the point your trying to make, but you can get from the factory that way.

 

I did not know that .. in that case, I see no problem with it.

I would feel a little safer having that brace there however.