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Old 08-04-2013, 05:46 PM   #339
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Originally Posted by Pete_89T2 View Post
I forgot you had a modified alternator... So at high idle >1K or so, you're seeing at least 13.5 V and the battery charges even with all the electrical loads on? If that's the case, you need to raise the RPMs of the alternator at idle -- an overdrive alternator pulley would do this. Don't know where you can get one of those though. Underdrive pulleys can be had, but I don't know anyone that makes an overdrive pulley for an FC alternator.
Yep, no way any underdrive pulley is going to work on a daily driver FC.

Even with my FD alternator on my FC, I run a stock size pulley - both on the main and alternator sides.
It barely charges at night, at idle, with the headlights on...
(I have no A/C.)


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