alternator upgrade question

mullinax95 said
Do I need to install a ballast resistor or did I just get a alternator that went bad? Ignition 1(blue) and Ignition 2(brown) are wired together now without the ballast resistor and really that is all the difference. The car will not run with these two wires not wired together. It seems that Ignition 2 (brown) shouldn't have anything to do with it but it might. Thanks for the help.

No you do not need a ballast for the charging system. It was only for the ignition system. You can completely do away with the brown ign.2 wire. The ign. 2 brown wire was your bypass during start for the coil. It only has power in the crank position. I would look more at replacing the blue wire possibly with a 12 ga. wire. I would also look at stepping up the charge wire off the bat terminal. Here is a link to how Painless wires up a high out put alt. This may help you and keep this from happening again. Go to page 7 figure 7-1B.

http://www.painlessperformance.com/Manuals/90542Manual.pdf