Zmanj87 Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Just curious if there's a con to just going and buying a refurbished beck/arnley alternator from advance Auto. I know the 280zx swap is very common but there seems to be a lot of rewiring. Would you have to do the same rewiring if you went with the Beck/Arnley or is it just plug and play. Also I would assume the Beck/Arnley has a more upgrade would have the built in solid-state voltage regualtor or is it built exactly like the stock 280z that requires the use of the external mechanical voltage regulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSkuZed Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I had just gone through the same issue when thinking I had a bad alternator. I come to find out that I had a newer reman alternator and had also assumed it would be a modern internal reg unit but it was not. It still would have to use the VR so unless you do the ZX swap you would have to get a external reman unit. Also as far as the wiring goes we lucked out having a 75 which only comes with 5 wires at the connection to the VR and not the 6 wire which has that extra wire we need to cut off power when the car is off and wont drain the battery... So there would be a little extra work needed to do the swap for this year. If your VR checks out just get a cheap reman and call it a day. GL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmanj87 Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 Thanks for the reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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