They make (made) back covers for our alternators?

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 09/23/2012 04:02 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
> yes.
>
> I had a Porsche 924 or was it 944 sourced back cover for the
> alternator in my '82 westy I4 install. The back cover had a short
> tube extension (about 1.75" diameter) to which I connected a hose
> that ran to the base of the driver's side air intake.
>
> you can see a pic here on my old neglected website
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/images/final%20web%20pics/my%20engine/pictures/engine3.html
>
>  alistair
>
>
> On 2012-09-23, at 3:28 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> Dennis writes to say, "[...] if you have 90 amps with a drop of 12
>> volts you are dissipating 1,080 watts [in the alternator] as
>> heat."
>>
>> Has anyone looked at ducting cool air to the fan intake on the
>> alternator? Probably not. Am I boldly going where no man has gone
>> before?
>