Alright, so i have the intake torqued onto the sportsman 2 heads, and what do ya know, when i go to put the alternator on, the adjuster bracket (off an 87 tpi) hits the throttle body (the coolant fittings on the bottom, and the iac). How did you overcome this problem (mabee i have it on there wrong, its been 2 years since i took this setup off), any close up pics of the way the bracket mounts would help out greatly.

thanks in advance
anthony

Most likely you are putting the adjuster bracket for the alternater on correct but, the lt1 intake sets your throttle body lower than the tpi intake so you need to grind away some of the bracket.

Check my site, what it looks like is on there some where.
Don't recall exactly where.

you got pics of the serpentine setup on there but not v belt. i will just cut the bracket with the plasma cutter and weld on a brace that bolts to the head for support. i will try to grab some pics as soon as i can get a digital camera over to the car.

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anthony

Had the same problem. Went to the hardware store and picked up a turnbuckle to replace the bracket. Seemed to work okay until I swapped to the serp setup.

the turnbuckle is a good idea and im sure it looks better then the butcher job the stock bracket needs to fit. my only wory is that the water pump will crack where the bracket bolts to (we had a lt1 140 amp alt on there with the carb and the water pump had a nice sized crack running through it), but that could have been a bad casting. I will look into the turnbuckle though, its a very good idea.

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anthony

did you by chance need a longer belt than factory, my alt hits the tb even after the bracket is cut? I am going ti get a longer belt and that should give me enough clearance.

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finally got a good pic to post, i went with a turnbuckle for now, but will buy a nice mount kit if i keep the v belt setup. i had to buy a longer belt, i think it was 3 or 4 inches longer than stock.

couldn't you have gone with a shorter turnbuckle and a shorter belt, or does something get in the way?

look at the iac housing area, the plug gets really close to the alt., and with the stock length belt, the alt actually hit the iac valve even with nothing pluged into it. That is the reason i went with the longer belt and medium turn buckle.
also, the coolant ports on the tb were close to hitting the alt as well.

i may have to do something different if my motion twin turbo hood hits it, but if is doesnt, then i will leave it like this for now, but if i procharge it later on, i will have to switch to a serp. belt setup. all in all, the way it is will work as long as the hood clears it.

there was a lot more involved in the lt1 intake swap than i thought when i picked it up, i had to add material to the intake around the water ports to seal them (this is apparently a problem with sportsman 2 and some dart heads). i hope to fire it up in the next couple of weeks, then i will really be able to see what combination can do!

thanks
anthony

huh... thanks, I'll have to think about that, I have a project that I wanted to reposition the alternator inward a little bit and was thinking that it would be a simple matter of redoing or ditchign the stock bracket, but now that I'm thinking about it, even with the stock TPI location for the TB that area there still gets really tight, really fast...