Excessive Amperage

[jakmagic]

Hi guys, has anybody had experience with Excessive Amperage alternators? This company was recommended by a friend of mine. Guess its a smaller operation owned by a guy who's been building h/o alternators for 18 yrs. I understand many people will say go with a Singer, DC, or Mechman, which is what I may do. For informative purpose let's keep this post on Excessive Amperage. He offers 250-300-350a alternators. Can powder coat to almost any color and offers polished too. If anybody has any experiences with these please post a little about it. Also thanks to everybody who takes the time to read or post on this topic.

[Noel989]

How much?

Not many poeple run his alt

From all the comps/meets I've been too

I've seen 1-2 cars(that I know) with them

[dolarbilz]

I have EA 300 alt. It works .it broke on me in the 1st hour running it.he did warranty it.his emails for sales were responsive for warranty seemed emails were slow.

I still have it its a lot smaller than my singer 350.sometimes I wonder if its even 300..maybe his works better these days

[bmuhammad1]

I have an EA alternator. The guys name is Nat. He was recommended to me by a friend mine Jeremy weber. I had my alt powder coated to match my Burgundy car. Plus I got an adjustable regulator. I think I paid about 480 for everything. He was pretty helpful with some issues I had but for me was very slow to respond so it get a quicker response I had to go through my friend. Trying to reach him on the phone was impossible. I was told my alt does 270 amp and about 200 at idle. I didn't get a print out of the specs so I'm currently trying to get Someone to meter my alt to see if it actually does what they said it's rated at. I have no reason to suspect Nat would lie. Seems to be a real stand up guy.

[TeamHT]

One of the best experiences I had with an alternator was through Nate at EA....that said the past couple years I have only seen horror stories. I don't know, my experience was good and the alt is still running to this day 4+ years now

[hispls]

I'm running one now. Bought one from him about 4 years ago, wore it out after about 100,000 miles, had a rebuild last year.. Had a few troubleshooting issues and he got back to me quick on the phone to walk me through things I couldn't be happier with the service and support I've got from Nate.

[mbdblue]

I ran my 200 amp for a little over 3 years...Seemed to do alright. I had a problem with it about 8 months ago (believe the bearings went on the pulley and started chewing out chunks of metal.) I emailed him to see if I could get it fixed; didn't know if it was still under warranty but I assumed it wasn't. I was willing to pay for the fix, but he never got back to me. Now it's still sitting on my garage floor and I have the stock one in. Figuring out if it's worth trying to contact him again.

[jakmagic]

So overall the responses look pretty positive with a couple mishaps. Looks like the only negative is trying to communicate with him sometimes. That is to be expected once in awhile with a small operation like that. I think I'll have to get a quote. My car has a alternator with a goofy bracket (97 Buick Lesabre 140 amp) so I hope it is even available. Thanks for all the input and responses guys!

[mbdblue]

just want to update my previous statement; I emailed Nathan again last week and he got back to me within a few days, saying he doesn't charge to check out my alternator for repair. I'll be sending it in this week to see what he says.