BTW the problems that I am having that im thinking will be helped by doing this is horrible dimming. Ever since I got home form overseas my car has been acting up. I got a yellow top batt hopeing that my killing batts every few months would stop. Well it stopped but now when I park he car and try to bump my system it cuts the radio out dims all power and even when i rev to the rev limiter it still cuts out the radio. If i am driving no problem everything is fine. So I am thinking the under drive pulley and the smaller alt pulley are finally taking there toll. SO I gotta fix this asap heh. Big3 is first then higher amp alt but no clue where to get one or how big to get it. I would also like a higher amp starter please don't suggest jbp.com never heard anything good about them.
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I dont know anything about The Big 3 question but as for as the alternator;
The stock alternator on my car puts out 105amps (96 cav 2.2L). I was looking at a high amp for my car a while back and I think it had like 170amps or somethin. Just search on google for something like "1996 cavalier high amp alternator" and see what you get.
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What subs do you have, and what coil configuration? Reason I ask is you have an 801d, which is 2 ohm stable. As for wire, 10 foot of 4 gauge will do you justice, and you're going to want crimp terminal ends like so:
Oh lord i dunno the exact subs i think they are audiobahn 12awt something or other. They are 450 or 500 rms. Well the amp is setup up so that there is 2 sets of outs left adn right channel its auto bridges it i guess but i jsut have one sub hooked to the left and one to the right channel. Im not a big wireing guy so all the help you guys can give would be great heh.
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if i was you i'd go back to the stock pulley. a bigger pulley is going to take more effort to spin it (as far as ive been told) so going with a bigger alternator with a smaller pulley will problably net you the same as going with the stock pulley on your stock alternator. i'd also just go t an autoparts store like autozone an have your alt load tested (most do it for free) to make sure that it is running fine. ive had a bad alt before that was working but only putting out half of what it should have do to a bad rectefirer or something of the sort. also i know you say your busy but you could take a piece of string out and measure your stock wiring route in about 5 minutes time.
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