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"Axial" (axial)
04/26/2015 at 11:37 • Filed to: sweet turbo yo, alternator poof, uuuuuuuuuugh

So, I was driving the ZR-1 around yesterday. I come back to the car, turn it on, and get a battery light. Then I notice the volts aren’t going up with engine revs. Turns out, my turbo alternator went poof. So spent 20 minutes to charge the battery with the truck, drove 8 miles. Wash, rinse repeat...three times. In the rain. At night.

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DISCUSSION (12)

E. Julius > Axial
04/26/2015 at 11:40

If you upgrade to a supercharger, it’s powered right off the engine so you won’t have to wait for the belt to spool up.

PS9 > E. Julius
04/26/2015 at 11:45

Wait; the supercharger is powered by the engine? Holy crap, If we just inject gasoline directly into the battery and loop them together we could have infinite energy!

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > PS9
04/26/2015 at 11:48

Loop the tail pipe directly into the turbocharger for infinite boost. You could have 30lbs of boost at idle. Hell itd be making 6lbs when the car is off.

rithsleeper > Axial
04/26/2015 at 11:59

Really your volts shouldn’t change very much with revs that is the regulators job and why we use alternators instead of generators like olden days. Is it a ‘90s z or c6z? Good news is now you are a real race car! No more drag from a alternator. Just like dirt cars!

E. Julius > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
04/26/2015 at 12:01

I’ve only started my car once. It’s been rolling off the boost from that first time ever since.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > E. Julius
04/26/2015 at 12:02

You should start bottling some of that boost and selling it at AutoZone.

E. Julius > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
04/26/2015 at 12:07

No way man, if I started selling cheap boost nobody would buy my Fuelshark™s anymore, and the profit margin is way higher on those things.