Alterpower from Van Aaken

[Simon13]

Has anyone heard of this? or driven a car with this.

All it basically does from what i understand is stop the alternator running at mid/high revs.

Supposed to unleash 6bhp

Just wondering what u guys think of it, seems a good little tuning option to me!

[Dan318-is]

how dus it do that? sounds interesting

[Simon13]

not sure some big cable going to the battery, apprantly your car can run for upto 30mins on a good battery. It also detects if the battery is low and starts the alternator again. If what i read is true.

Found a 325i with this fitted and a Van Aaken chip too

[Dan318-is]

n e idea how much

surely the battery would run flat sooner? an im taking that it automatically starts charging the battery again?

[Shinobi1]

I had one of these when they were made by racelogic, i thought it was really good and showed a noticeable increase ,mine developed a fault after about four years and could not get it repaired coz racelogic stopped making them ! it interupts the main lead to the alternator feeding it through the unit ,it has a vacum take off which triggers the unit under full throttle and switches it back off as you ease off the gas.

cheers paul

[Demlotcrew]

I remember you telling me about this paul! its a coold mod if you can take it off working SI

Andrew

[Shinobi1]

I had one of these when they were made by racelogic, i thought it was really good and showed a noticeable increase ,mine developed a fault after about four years and could not get it repaired coz racelogic stopped making them ! it interupts the main lead to the alternator feeding it through the unit ,it has a vacum take off which triggers the unit under full throttle and switches it back off as you ease off the gas.

cheers paul

[ian332isport]

I had one of these when they were made by racelogic, i thought it was really good and showed a noticeable increase ,mine developed a fault after about four years and could not get it repaired coz racelogic stopped making them ! it interupts the main lead to the alternator feeding it through the unit ,it has a vacum take off which triggers the unit under full throttle and switches it back off as you ease off the gas.

cheers paul

Paul,

If you've still got it, I'll have a look and see if I can repair it.

Cheers,

Ian.

[tomstickland]

A good idea and worth a few BHP.
Also worth binning other power sapping tat like air con and power steering.