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I recently ordered a HP 320 which did not fit after waiting awhile but i have to say that Kyle and Rob called me promptly after i sent the emails showing how it didnt fit and told me that he had to machine a new 270 XP which absoloutly made my day! It is going to take a few weeks but i am willing to wait a few weeks for a xp over the hp. All in all they were willing to make it right and showed great customer communication and im 100% satisfied with DC powers crew

Sounds awesome! Id like to see the vid of that for sure

I What year do you have, I just picked up an 1998 Acura 3.5RL and im looking for an alternator myself? I have a 04 but we have the same engines. I curently have a 180A alt in my car now but im upgrading to 270-320. If you want the one i take out, let me know, ive only had it about 3 months so its mint still. But if not and want to go new, thats cool too Not looking for one right now, just pricing honestly but thanks for the heads up though. I will be tuned in to this to see what I should do for my Acura as well. No problem man. I will have my alt in the car in a couole weeks but my system wont be all up and running until the weather gets a little nicer. I will be making build videos too on my youtube BassBrokeIt so stay tuned

I had to run down to Long Beach to pick up regulators for Denso for your alternator today(as well as others) so it will ship tomorrow.. Since it was brought up, ALL of our regulators have temp compensation. Some have more than others (late model Toyota's are worst, Honda's are decent, and our standard regulator has the least amount of compensation.. It's literally so close impossible to fry one of these alts because the level of safety in the regulators is so high. They are so smart, they'll run literally at 99.5% of capacity continuously without failure.. We've endurance ran 390XP's on the new bench balls to the wall, and burned up belts before we ever even got remotely close to hurting the alt.. In short, the HP/XP regulators straight up PWN everything else I've ever seen.. BUT we use nothing but NEW OEM regulators, and they are EXPENSIVE! To give you an idea, with NO exaggeration are pushing $80 a POP... Chinese regulators that our competition uses, are seriously 1/10 of that.. We have ZERO defects, they run 20%.. Ours integrate 100% perfectly with the PCM, theirs have all the OEM features disabled and throw codes.. On a Honda, this is like, HUGELY important.. The PCM and alternator are SO closely intertwined that when you separate them, you instantly take a 5mpg hit usually, your car will shake like a MF'r at idle, and it's just, not, good practice.. At least we will be upfront and tell you straight up why we do things a certain way, instead of color coat it with BS. Yeah, let's hang Fords WORST alternator they ever designed in a Honda, yank the PCM's control, and call it success... whatever... Anyways /rant /soapbox Back to the 3.5L Honda, I dont know how we're going to do exactly, yet with the way the mount is.. That alternator is in there TIGHT, and even though the XP's are just a bit bigger, the case just wont fit.. I know I can make a new one to fit these, but it's not even on my radar until we have our machines in and running. Sometime this spring, it will be done, but it's down the line a bit.. Besides, a 320 on this car with the pulley ratio's it has is actually really, really strong.. An XP with stock pulleys, 200 at idle no problem, with full PCM integration so it will actually WORK... Ok thanks rob. So you think for the time being, im better off and just as good with the HP320 then? What do you think my idle output will look like? On the site it says 100A at idle, is that pretty accurate? Im going to be running about 5k at minumim with a handful of xs power batteries so i just make sure the HP will be sufficient.

XS Power is worth every penny! xs power ftw!!

Why wouldnt it? I think, but could be wrong, that they all have the temp sensing.

I What year do you have, I just picked up an 1998 Acura 3.5RL and im looking for an alternator myself? I have a 04 but we have the same engines. I curently have a 180A alt in my car now but im upgrading to 270-320. If you want the one i take out, let me know, ive only had it about 3 months so its mint still. But if not and want to go new, thats cool too

Well i cant get ahold of him but i dont have that engine he is talking about either. I have a C35a acura engine that is a 3.5l engine for a acura rl, the last one they made not a vtec engine and much bigger than the little 4 cylinder and thats why i wanted to talk to him before it gets sent out. I left a messege so im just waiting for a call back

WoW that's effin amazing! ---->2x^^

I called and left a message on your machine so feel free to call me asap. I talked to someone else and was told the HP alt would be sent out in the next day or two so hopefully we can talk before that. Thanks ROb

Thank you my man Rob, thats exactly what i was looking for. I have a imort( acura) so the HP wasy only option from what i was told so thats what i got was a 320A alt. Thanks guys

Whats the difference say between the 270xp and the 320hp model dc alternators? I saw people say the xp is better than the hp but what advantates does it have over the higher output 320HP?

Oh wow, i had to sign up for this because i too spent an hour reading this whole thread and i feel like if i had read this i would have thought twice about just ordering a alternator, THE HP SERIES ALSO, because this is crazy!! Im going to call tomorrow about mine because its been about 2 weeks now so now im getting skeptical.