What are the non-serpentine belt people doing to mount their alternators? The miniram has no place to mount the bracket that was bolted to the intake on the TPI setup.



Where is it supposed to go? The IAC motor is in the way.




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87 IROC-Z 305 TPI gears, exhaust, converter
14.70 at 94.1 mph
Solid Roller Minirammed 377 waiting to be installed

[This message has been edited by Scott 87 IROC-Z (edited July 14, 2001).]

 

I just installed a miniramm on a serpintine setup so I'm not sure about your's but have you tried contacting TPIS to see what they suggest.Maybe they have a bracket you can buy .I called them e few times with questions they were're helpfull.other than that I don't know good luck.

 

We encountered this same problem when we installed my MiniRam on Mike Davis' motor for Dyno comparing a fully upgraded TPI setup to the MiniRam on a HOT cammed ZZ4. Simply put - we obtained another alt bracket and modified it (chopped it off). Pics are here:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~davis/z28...racketmod1.jpg

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~davis/z28...racketmod2.jpg

Tim



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TRAXION's 1990 IROC-Z
Best Time = 12.244 @ 112.51mph (1.778 60' / 7.819@88.32mph in the 1/8)
All Natural. No Force. No Drugs. Stock Bottom End. Stock Body Panels.
Gunning for NA 11's with bigger cam, bigger stall, and bigger exhaust.
-=ICON Motorsports=-
Moderator: PROM board at thirdgen.org

 

You can try to use a turnbuckle with spherical rod ends (similar to what March uses) and mount one end on the water pump where the stock bracket bolts to and the other end to the alternator.

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1989 IROC-Z, ZZ3 shortblock with some bolt-ons.
13.20 @ 108.69, 2.2 60'

 

Thanks Tim. It looks like I'm going to be doing some grinding this week.