A couple things conspire to make mounting the alternator in this car tricky.<\/p>\n
First, is the lack of allowance to change the mounting at all.\u00a0 There are simple bracket kits out there to relocate it to the passenger side, which would help weight distribution, but of course this would not be allowed under our rules.<\/p>\n
Another problem is the method used in the early Z28, was somewhat unique to those years.\u00a0 The cylinder heads weren’t yet provided with the mounting bosses, so big wacky brackets off other parts of the engine, is the way.\u00a0 Here you can see how the upper portion is a 2-part bracket pair, with one part hanging off an intake manifold bolt, the other shared with a water pump bolt.\u00a0 This photo was meant to show off the oil fill tower, but of the ones I took it best shows how the brackets attach:<\/p>\n
The parts are available to reproduce that part of the alternator mounting, but one more challenge awaits.\u00a0 The picture here I borrowed from the site 67z28.com<\/a>\u00a0and the excellent photo restoration done there.\u00a0 It illustrates how the alternator attaches to the engine at the bottom.\u00a0 A cradle bracket, which affixes via two bolts, to a threaded part of the exhaust manifold<\/em>!\u00a0 Arrgh.<\/p>\n![\"oil](\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1020836.jpg\" "\\"P1020836\\"")
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