Alternator Mounting Xu10 Turbo

[Anton green 12 1 Cars]

Well I got the Mi16 engine out on Saturday and got the turbo motor in too. (which I'm fairly happy about seeing as I have never done this before and the friends who said they'd help me turned out to be handilly unavailable so I was working by myself) [/rant]

A few things have become obvious now the engine is in the bay -when the lump was on my homemade trolley in the garage I thought I may be able to do something to use the alternator bracket which was in position on the turbo engine, as it didnt seem to be excessively in the way. Now I can clearly see that this will foul the radiator as someone previously mentioned on the forum, and cant readilly be used.

 

Does someone have a compact proven way to mount the alt, or good suggestions? If not I'll look over the area in more detail at this weekend

 

cheers

Edited April 29, 2008 by Anton green

[inferno 1]

Do a search iirc i used non aircon model xantia xu10 engine tensioner and bracket, also zx desel models have a good setup iirc too.

 

Your not too far away if you get stuck i could lend a hand, theres also at least three suitable doners in a local scrapyard if you get stuck for parts.

[sonofsam 5]

Well I got the Mi16 engine out on Saturday and got the turbo motor in too. (which I'm fairly happy about seeing as I have never done this before and the friends who said they'd help me turned out to be handilly unavailable so I was working by myself) [/rant]

A few things have become obvious now the engine is in the bay -when the lump was on my homemade trolley in the garage I thought I may be able to do something to use the alternator bracket which was in position on the turbo engine, as it didnt seem to be excessively in the way. Now I can clearly see that this will foul the radiator as someone previously mentioned on the forum, and cant readilly be used.

 

Does someone have a compact proven way to mount the alt, or good suggestions? If not I'll look over the area in more detail at this weekend

 

cheers

 

 

Hi Anton, How I did it on mine, was to use a mount from a 406 n/a engine that I got from the breakers,

had thrown the xu10Turbo mount in the bin previously so this was a winner for me!

 

Bolt's upto the block in the same manner, but differs in design as you can see, I still lopped off the PAS pump mount

just for good measure though:

 

 

Used a couple of long shank bolts and spacers at the top and the lower swing tensioner off the 205.

 

 

Seen quite a few other methods on here also though.

 

Sam.

[Mikey G 3]

I made one out of angle iron

 

[jonnie205 1]

that is a gti6 mount. Best way by far is to use a gti6 mount with pas pump bracket cut off and a gti6 alternator. You then need a mi16 lt belt tensioned witha mi16 cambelt tensioner. Very reliable setup and looks pukka too. I have all these bits in stock if you need the bits cheap

[jonnie205 1]

ps a gti6 alternator bolts straight on withourt having to fabriacated any brackest or drill any holes etc

[welshpug 1,661]

The mount pictured is used on nearly every XU10J4R/RS with or without A/C, so there's plenty about, they just weigh a fair bit, but do place the alternator a fair bit higher and closer to the block than the Mi/S16 mounts.

[whizzer71 0]

As per above or use the S16 upper mount and lower mounts as per Pics,Depends what you have readily available

[whizzer71 0]

And

[Peetypug 5]

 

is this the same one as on the 306 rallye?

[Hilgie 16 2 Cars]

yes it is

 

...and I used the same setup as whizzer71

[tom_m 0]

i'm using this combo:

 

[Anton green 12 1 Cars]

cheers all, some good methods there.

 

I'll have a look around the scrapyard, and B&Q soon to see what is available to make the best job of mounting up.