Multiple Alternators!

[justinschmidt]

Alright my friend and myself will be fitting 4 alternators under my hood, the stock one behind the engine block and three additional alternators in place of the air conditioning compressor. I have already upgraded the entire vehicle with 0/1 Knukonceptz wiring and I have 4 brand new stock alternators at my disposal. Yes I could just drop In a 220amp mechman alt, but why throw out $600 if I can do this for under $100. also this will give me more amperage than the mechman alternator around 1500rpm.

I have a question though, 0 gauge wires from each alternator to the battery, with an appropriate inline fuse on each power wire, then the mounting bracket will act as a ground right to the engine block. Would it hurt or be beneficial to run a negative or two from the bracket to the negative post on the battery?

Also, should I get 3 additional alternator harnesses and just splice into my original main alternator harness?

Last but not least, upgrade the fusebox alternator fuse by roughly 3.5x the original fuse size to accommodate the new amperage load required?

Thanks in advance!

[finkster]

what kind of car?

and the fuse box has a main fuse that protects the wire, not the load.

Any fuse in the wiring of a car protects the wire, not the load!