What good is a high end system if you can not generate enough power for it. To help this problem out, we are installing a 275 AMP alternator from Excessive Amperage. Below is a shot comparison of the two alternators. On the left is the old alternator, and the right, the new 275 amp alternator. It's hard to see the difference in the sizes, but if you take a close look at the mounting brackets, you can get an idea.

The new alternator is almost an inch larger in diameter. So to make it fit in such a tight area, we needed to do some shaving. We took a bit off the bracket and shaved some excess off the alternator to make sure everything fits snug.

To make this bad boy fit we have to really get in the vehicle deep. It's time to remove the half shaft, splash guards and jack the engine up about 2 inches just to get the new bad boy in.

Now that we have everything out of the way, it's time to drop the new alternator in. But even after shaving the bracket and the alternator, we still have a problem. Investigating leads to a really surprising fact that the previous alternator was laying on the exhaust. This, of course, is not good. So to make sure the new alternator doesn't rest on the exhaust, we use some shims to pull it out of the way. On the picture on the left, you can see the burn marks on the old alternator from the exhaust.

Once that's all settled, it's time to hook up all the wires, the belt, and put everything back together. A additional hot wire is installed from the alternator to the battery. Below shows the path used to run the new wire.

After some hard work, the alternator is installed and keeping charge!

She holds true to a little over 14v with the stereo up, air on high, and the lights on at 2000RPM. This means we have a great alternator and hopefully it lasts a long time. Now we can finally get on with the rest of the car!