My stock bracket was cut so the alternator can fit on the bottom of the engine. I have no idea how good it works because I have not fired the motor up yet. Taking all of that useless, heavy junk out of the way frees up a lot of space to work on the car.

 

Do you have any pics?

 

Not yet. I will be home from school Thursday and I will go crazy with the camera. I will take pictures of the rack and pinion and the alternator bracket.

 

can see basically where the alt is on pass side low.

Pic on bottom left look at black piece that holds alt

More performance sells the brackets as well.

The rack you just need to take the lines off and get a looped line made, take a bit of the fluid out of the rack as well not much just some.

Steven

 

Dang, that's a bunch of photos!

I really enjoyed them. It looks like a really nice car. When will it be finished?

Daren

 

You were taking off your ac correct? Currectly, to place the alternator down low you need to have the ac removed. I manufacture T6061 fabbed kits for this purpose.

I've had on the backburner a design to keep power steering but not ac. I just haven't been able to work on it.

Regarding the power steering. You may want to try running the lines directly to your reservoir. Since the rack is not a self lubricated rack and fluid is pushed from side to side is restricted, if capped off, it may create pressure issues as the interior pressure cannot be equalized when you turn your wheel(although some guys have done it this way and the've said it works fine).

The reason why you can still turn the wheel is the fact you introduced air in the system which you can't bleed out Air is more compressible then the fluid thus you are able to turn your steering wheel. IF you had only fluid in the rack and it was bled, with it capped would make it very difficult to turn if it was capped. This situation will eventually lead to the inner seals leaking.

By running the lines together could be a solution but your not able to bleed the air from your lines with this method. Thus my reason to run lines up to the reservoir. You will be able to run your rack normally while retaining correct pressures in addition to bleeding the air our of your rack which will prolong the life of your rack.

Just some food for thought.

Good luck with all your decisions,

steve10

 

Can anyone give pics of the power rack crimped/lines looped together. Thanks

Johnny

 

An alternative to using the power rack would be to use a Mustang II type manual rack like those sold by Flaming River and others like them.

 

its real dirty, and some ill-fitting wires are just zip tied in place since i slapped things together in a hurry to make some runs before the year was over. but anyways heres a couple pics of the motor with the Ac, PS, and accessory drive bracket gone and the Alt relocated

Pic1
Pic2