Many VW-Audi-Porsche vehicles used some type of fresh air inlet for
alternator cooling.

Dennis

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Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 7:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?

Gotta see if I can find one-a them things.

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

On 09/23/2012 04:37 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
> well, sort of.
>
> the cover bolted up fine except that the cutout for the wires was not in
the right spot when I clocked the cover so that vent was pointed at the
drivers side. So I cut a new space for wires and taped up old space.
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2012-09-23, at 4:31 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> They make (made) back covers for our alternators?
>>
>> --
>> 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%20eng
>>> ine/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?
>>>
>