1969-70 voltage regulator wiring help!

well i can't help you much with the wiring at the moment, since i don't have a wiring diagram and my 69 is all bundled up for the winter.......... outside. but have a suggestion that might be better all around, and that is to use a late 80's-mid 90's mustang alternator, it is internally regulated and charges much better at low rpm than the older style does. as far as wiring it in i believe it would probabaly be about the same as what you are planning to do. oh by the way i like your thinking on your project. a good friend of mine and i were doing the same swap on one of his mitsubishi starions, which the actual mitsubishi version of the conquest, we were using a 66 289 hipo and were having a blast fabbing stuff up for it, unfortunately he died in a car wreck beforer it was completed.

thanks, it happned almost 10 years ago, but i still miss him some times. i learned a lot about cars from him. he had done a lot of conversion type stuff. he had done several v8 z-cars, a couple of v8 rangers and s-10's he even did an svo turbo'd ranger once that was really cool, and then the v8 starion project, a lot of really cool cars. he and i restored an 81 280z that had been converted to a v8 car at one time. we restored back completely stock with the correct turbo motor and everything, turned out really nice, he died about 3 months after we finished that one, and the starion was really close to being on the road when he died. anyway i kind of know what it's like to have a car like that, i just thought of another option that might be even easier, and that is to use a regular gm internally regulated alternator, has even less wires to deal with than the late mode ford alternator and will bolt right in place of most ford alternators. my best friend used to have a 77 280z with a 350 and it had a very similar style charging system to what the conquest has and Ron (the one who died) him and myself changed the alternator to the gm style, took us about 30 minutes total and worked like a charm, you might consider that as well

I have the GM alternator in my Stang. Don't ask me what's it's out of since I got it from a parts pile. There was two wires to hook up. One goes the battery and the other to the in dash gauge. I did have to put a diode in the wire going to the gauge though. Otherwise the engine wouldn't shut off when I turned the key off.