Saturday Night Racer - Hobby Altenator

bakominimamma LMR Member Offline Dirt Late Models Rule! Posts: 179	Hobby Altenator 01/08/11 at 3:47pm Whats everyones opinion on running a altenator on a Hobby?? Just wondering. Thanks
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Chad11 LMR God Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 662	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #1 - 01/08/11 at 5:27pm You dont need one, just charge the battery overnight the night before the race.
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03 LMR Senior Offline Shut up and race! Posts: 349 Turlock	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #2 - 01/08/11 at 8:55pm Agree with Chad11
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01M LMR Senior Offline DOIN' IT! Posts: 367 ATWATER, CA	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #3 - 01/09/11 at 7:26pm i run an alternator on my hobby so i dont have to charge it. just one less thing to worry about when doing maintence on the car. the power loss is very minimal from 1-3 horsepower depending on what alternator you use.
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Re: Hobby Altenator
Reply #4 - 01/09/11 at 9:04pm

01M wrote on 01/09/11 at 7:26pm:

i run an alternator on my hobby so i dont have to charge it. just one less thing to worry about when doing maintence on the car. the power loss is very minimal from 1-3 horsepower depending on what alternator you use.

Ditto. With a dry slick track like Bako or anywhere else in cali it would help you! I don't know anyone who has won a race without spinning the tires!

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Re: Hobby Altenator
Reply #5 - 01/10/11 at 10:07am

Loss of HP is not the reason I would chose to not run a an alternator. Running an alternator adds weight to the front of the car. Being that Bako is dry slick alot, combined with the fact that they lowered the weight rule to 3200 last year, I would want to keep as much weight off the front end as possible. The alternator also adds to the list of things that can break and cause a bad night. You've got the added risk of throwing a fan belt and what if the alternator itself decides to stop working. Even when we ran the 100 lappers a few years ago, I had no issues without an alternator.

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ministocker56 LMR God Offline Dirt Late Models Rule! Posts: 1478	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #6 - 01/10/11 at 1:54pm I't not a hobby , But my mini stock i've allway's ran an Altenator & just run a Switch to shut it off & restart it so it will charge
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Re: Hobby Altenator
Reply #7 - 01/11/11 at 1:07am

I always ran a Altenator on my cars. I raced a Street stock, Limited Late Model, and a Super Stock. If you thing about it, you want your coil to put out as much volts at you can get it to. Once your battery starts getting a little low on charge your coil isnt going to sp out as many volts as when you started the race so your loosing HP. If you run a Altenator you will keep your battery charged and keep your volts up to make you have as much Hp at the end of the race as when you started the race. You might loose a couple Hp running one but you have more Hp then some one not running one at the end. The set up i use is chep and works very well. You can get it from a wrecking yard. I use the crank pully, water pump pully and 1 wire Altenator off a early 90's chevy with the Serpentine setup. I do not run a switch to shut the power off to it.

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TURBO98 LMR God Offline If everythings under control u're not fast enough Posts: 541 bakersfield	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #8 - 01/11/11 at 7:58am Here's a great article on the subject... http://stockcarracing.automotive.com/82833/scrp-0506-racecar-alternators-debate/...
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01M LMR Senior Offline DOIN' IT! Posts: 367 ATWATER, CA	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #9 - 01/12/11 at 4:59pm in my 8 years of racing i have never had any problem with my alternator. i also run the one wire setup but i do have it "race prepped" at an auto electrical shop here in merced. the owner is a veteran racer that ran alternators and modifies them to handle high rpms and racing stress.
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Re: Hobby Altenator
Reply #10 - 01/12/11 at 7:45pm

Well, I have never ran an alternator on my hobby in bako.
I don't think I have ever lost a race to someone because they were running and alternator and I have won several races without one.

So to me I don't think there is a need to run one as long as you keep your battery charged good.

Like Chad 11 said. I have run 2 of the 100 lap races and completed ever lap without a problem. Even stopped halfway and the car started just fine and started just fine after the night was over. I finished 2nd in one and 5th in the other.

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Racin72 LMR Senior Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 334 Califorina	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #11 - 01/12/11 at 11:55pm i havent run one since i started racing I just charge it the night before and through out the night at the track no problems yet
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18racr LMR God Offline We have a Fraud in the White House. Posts: 2848	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #12 - 01/13/11 at 10:37am Alittle off the subject,,, 01M, in your picture it sure looks like you had a toe in problem on your car?
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Andrew LMR God Offline 2006 SMS M.S. champion... more of a PB these days Posts: 1359 Camarillo	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #13 - 01/13/11 at 6:12pm That's not necessarily toe in, more likely an ackermann problem.
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01M LMR Senior Offline DOIN' IT! Posts: 367 ATWATER, CA	Re: Hobby Altenator Reply #14 - 01/13/11 at 6:44pm ya toe was always set good but i think something was bent but i bent the clip in hanford so now the whole front end is being replaced.
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