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I'll show ya how to do it for tree fitty

You get that motor city reman jobby?

I'm real happy with mine especially at the price I paid. It has a smaller pulley and I initially had some belt squeak up until things got warmed up. That happens very rarely now.

One problem I did have was upgrading the alternator power wire. You need to utilize a very small ring connector at the alternator to keep from shorting things out on the housing. I ended up using a standard 4 gauge replacement cable from Advance Auto Parts and grinding the end terminal down until it fit(awfully darn thin now, hehe). I really didn't want to cut up the original wiring just in case I ever "upgrade" to another Explorer and want to take the stuff with me so I left the original wiring in place and ran the new wiring in parallel(4 gauge + 6 gauge = ?). The stock alt wire also runs through a pair of fusable links. This worried me and again I didn't want to cut things up to run through that so I just installed an el cheapo 150 amp ANL fuse and holder at the battery.

I'm in the process of upgrading to 1/0 gauge power wiring, but due the difficulty of adding even 4 gauge to the alternator I think I'll just leave things as they are there. I'm only running about 1000 watts total anyways.

If you ran 1/0 to your alternator I'd surely be interested on how you managed it.

:)

-Fishy

a HO alternator makes quite a difference, doesn't it?

Well Guys.. 3 days and about 300 bucks later I'm of and runnin.. upgraded the big three plus a 170 amp ho alternator.. no voltage drop now... plus i really got to see what the 1201's capable of.. that amps got some power behind it.. appreciate the help..

ya i have never been impressed in RF's stuff lately well for the last few years, its pretty sad day when companys go down hill like that

The P1's and P2's do good job for SPL. SQ isn't there at all though. Although they do a good job of masking their inaccuracies. I found the P3's to be a HUGE step up in SQ from the P2's.

ya if some P2s can make ur roof flex i think about anything could, well i suppose thats a pretty big area with not too much support.

lol, the Explorer will handle those Pioneers fine, but the alt's not gunna like that Amp much longer. The roof flexes quite a bit on my Jeep with just a couple Rockford P2's sealed. They're not my subs, but i'm using em' till I finish my friend's new box lol. I realized it doesnt take much to flex the roof or move the change in my cup holder up front.

Yup.. my voltage meter pretty much follows the bassline.. so looks like an ho alternator for me... I got back from the shop bout 2 hrs ago.. upgraded the big three to 1/0 gauge helped some.. but guess with that kind of current draw I can't expect too much from the stock alternator.....Honestly I'll probably never listen to it regularly that loud.. don't think the truck can take it....the roofs flexing about 3 inches when i threw in some old magic mike.. but hey nothin like overkill....thanks guys...