RE>Alternator swapping
Shel Hall writes:
Much mo'bettah you should change the rest of the car to negative
ground. Most of the positive-ground-era cars don't have much in the way
of electronics; the lights don't care, the windshield wiper motor
probably won't care, and the switches don't care. About all you'd have
to change is the heater blower motor and the starter
> **** Correction: The starter don't care. The heater blower don't care,
either. About the only things that care are the ignition coil ( just reverse
the wires ),
>>Corrected correction- I believed the swapping of coil
wires to be true also, until I read Charlie Rockwell's
write-up of LBC ignition basics. He states that the
coil should be hooked up with the negative terminal
going to the distributor, and the positive side to the
ignition switch, NO MATTER WHICH WAY THE BATTERY IS
INSTALLED. He claims that a backwards installation is
worth about 5 hp, too. Hmmmmm.
dstone
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