Re: Power Upgrades

[Martin Secrest <msecrest@erols.com>]

Shawn Loseke wrote:
> 
> All right, the fan is likely to free up some H.P. because your reducing
> mass that the motor has to turn. 12 H.P. is probably optimistic.  But an
> on/ off switch for the alternator is a load of crap. Sorry to be blunt, but
> the only horses to be gained from eliminating the alternator is to remove
> the parasitic drag from the alternator belt. An on/off switch for the
> current it creates would have no beneficial effect what so ever.

Not true.  The alternator's resistance increases whenever the voltage regulator
asks it to work.  Didn't you ever notice your engine slow down when you
turn on the lights?

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Martin Secrest
72 TR6
73 GT6