My 1985 moss green xe'd gl!

Cool, i'll see how it goes.

Have you had a look on the front of the engine block, theres quite a few spare threads you could bolt an alternator bottom mount onto maybe using an adaptor plate or something?

Yeah, i have an old cav p/s bracket kicking around somewhere, i'll see if i can dig it out and have a play. I reckon the standard xe alternator will be no use though as it looks too big. What ampage is the standard xe alternator?

Depends on the car. Probably on a v-belt early engine 50-60amp. Later ones are likely to be 70+.
Std nova ones are about 55a

Cool ta mate, will have a nose round the scappies when i get 5!

If you make up some custom bracket jobbie, you could maybe look for a alt off a small car in the scrappy and make the bracket to fit it.
Any should be fine really, theres not going be massive load on a nova alternator.

Yeah, i reckon something jap will suffice, They normally have nice small aternators lol. Nothing a bit of bodging won't fix.

On that note John the isuzu td engine has a front mounted alternator with a good bracket on it not sure if it would fit an xe but i will look to see if it could be adapted as i think i have a spare somewere!

john did u find that the spi tank and mpi pump couldn keep fuel to the engine? is it some thing to do with the swirl pot on the spi tank being smaller than the sri or gsi tanks, so the mpi pump can empty the swirl pot quicker than it can fill it? its just im havin problems with the nova i put together!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by John H

hmmm, osf wing has been resprayed me thinks!

Cheers ste, top pic!

---

its the door not the wing if u look the wing matches the bonnet but not the door also the back wing dosent match the door

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by John H

Corsa kid, if i had your manifold, they'd clear easily as per adams diagram.

James, yeah sorry i've not rung, just finished kitchen mods for today so i'm off for a bath! Yeah mine is the exact same manifold as yours, only i'm running dhlas. So what did you do with the lower bracket? specially made one?

Mark, i've spoken to chris over on jov, and he must have the same manifold as corsakid, as he only modded the top mounting bracket, making a rose jointed one.

I'm thinking my only option now if for a front mount. So does anyone have any pics of a front mount on an xe?

Cheers for all your help with this guys!!

---

i have twin dellorto 48's on mine with a 7 degree inlet using all standard xe mounts my alternator is tight i had to make the tensioner bracket longer by about an inch or so but it clears easily now obviously with a longer belt 950mm i think.