alternator relocation?

[farley463]

Well I'm about to pull my 3.4 out in my z today and was thinking about whether or not I could relocate the alternator. I bought the car with an idler pulley where the ac compressor is supposed to go so I'm thinking that if I could re route the cables I could maybe put the alternator in the front of the engine. That would make it go from a 5 hour job to change to a 10 minute job. Plus it would last longer because it would get all the cool air it wants from underneath. I also had another idea to relocate the coils, I'd like to get a smaller overflow jug and set the coils right on the strut tower, anyone have any ideas on any of these just let me know. Thanks guys

[Dave96z34]

Mounts dont line up at all would need custom adapter plate.. Only takes 5 hours the first time iv seen it done on a 96 in an hour and a half. On my car with the 5 speed manual it takes less then 30min.

Coils you dont want to put soo close to the pcm. Smaller overflow makes it a lot better to work on the belts. Also relocating the windshield washer tank helps out.

[farley463]

Damn. I was hoping I could put it up front. I just did mine about a month ago and DAMN it was a pain in the ass. Then again I did mine the halfass way and just knocked the tie rod out instead of pulling the half shaft, and I ended up breaking the casing off the old one instead of getting that 10mm bolt out. Anyways, I'm pulling the motor tomorrow so I'm gonna see if I can make a bracket for it. Oh and I gotta agree that the washer tank and battery is one of the dumbest designs I've ever seen.

[Yetilikesbeer]

Silly yes, dumbest no. Helped the Bro inlaw swap motors in his Solara. It has the 3.0 L DOHC and is auto. Those ratards run the passenger side half shaft through the motor mount. What a pain in the ass. I was about 10 hammer blows away from beating the locating dowels off of the motor mount.



I'll change the altenator any day compared to workin on that thing.