Excessive Amp. or Power Bastards

[nick_19 1]

Hey all. I'm at a loss right now. I'm preparing for a build replacing my subwoofer. I will be using around 2500 watts of bass plus 250 watts of highs. I'll have one battery, but I rarely play the system with the car off. Anyways... Nathan (from Excessive Amperage) seems like a great guy and super nice, but I'll be paying $25 more for 20A less. The Power Bastards alt is 220A and the Excessive alt is 200A. Any recommendations? Comments/experience on build quality? Both come with an overdrive pully and a one year warranty. Thanks.

[Mac N Cheese 90]

Hey all. I'm at a loss right now. I'm preparing for a build replacing my subwoofer. I will be using around 2500 watts of bass plus 250 watts of highs. I'll have one battery, but I rarely play the system with the car off. Anyways... Nathan (from Excessive Amperage) seems like a great guy and super nice, but I'll be paying $25 more for 20A less. The Power Bastards alt is 220A and the Excessive alt is 200A. Any recommendations? Comments/experience on build quality? Both come with an overdrive pully and a one year warranty. Thanks.

Honestly Power bastards is a complete joke. Both the alts and customer service. If you want a quality built alt do not buy from them. My experience was absolutely terrible with them but now I know better

[Shogen 325]

Hey all. I'm at a loss right now. I'm preparing for a build replacing my subwoofer. I will be using around 2500 watts of bass plus 250 watts of highs. I'll have one battery, but I rarely play the system with the car off. Anyways... Nathan (from Excessive Amperage) seems like a great guy and super nice, but I'll be paying $25 more for 20A less. The Power Bastards alt is 220A and the Excessive alt is 200A. Any recommendations? Comments/experience on build quality? Both come with an overdrive pully and a one year warranty. Thanks.

Honestly Power bastards is a complete joke. Both the alts and customer service. If you want a quality built alt do not buy from them. My experience was absolutely terrible with them but now I know better

So who you using now Mac?

[Mac N Cheese 90]

Hey all. I'm at a loss right now. I'm preparing for a build replacing my subwoofer. I will be using around 2500 watts of bass plus 250 watts of highs. I'll have one battery, but I rarely play the system with the car off. Anyways... Nathan (from Excessive Amperage) seems like a great guy and super nice, but I'll be paying $25 more for 20A less. The Power Bastards alt is 220A and the Excessive alt is 200A. Any recommendations? Comments/experience on build quality? Both come with an overdrive pully and a one year warranty. Thanks.

Honestly Power bastards is a complete joke. Both the alts and customer service. If you want a quality built alt do not buy from them. My experience was absolutely terrible with them but now I know better

So who you using now Mac?

DC 270 XP

[Shogen 325]

ahh.. nice choice.. i been looking and still lost... BTW, remind us what you're running in your apparently "broken" EVO 8???

[total mayhem 3]

DO NOT get Powerbastards!!I had to send mine back 6 times in 2 months and the case shattered on the very last one. HORRIBLE ALTS!!!! I can speak on the other company because I havent used them. I use a Mechman and alot of my buddies run DC. Both are great companies with great service and alts.

[nick_19 1]

Haha point taken thanks for the opinions. I went ahead with Excessive because my alt needed to be custom built and Nathan was just a real great guy to talk to on the phone and seems to have a product to back up. Mechman's website is down and I'm fairly sure they don't carry an alt for my car in stock. The stator will need to be custom wound so the build time was 2 weeks but that's fine. I'll get it around New Year's hopefully, but knowing shipping this time of year, probably a little later. I'll post up with my experience when all is said and done.

[Bass212 0]

Haha point taken thanks for the opinions. I went ahead with Excessive because my alt needed to be custom built and Nathan was just a real great guy to talk to on the phone and seems to have a product to back up. Mechman's website is down and I'm fairly sure they don't carry an alt for my car in stock. The stator will need to be custom wound so the build time was 2 weeks but that's fine. I'll get it around New Year's hopefully, but knowing shipping this time of year, probably a little later. I'll post up with my experience when all is said and done.

I see you have a 06 Grand Prix. I have a old 04 Grand Prix, I went with powerbastards alternator 220 amp. It it working fine now for 6 months. Im allways willing to change to something better.

Please post more about your experience with your alternator. I run a single 15 with 2 sundown 1500s strapped. My best so far is 152.0 db and my voltage stays at 14.2 volts at the amps constantly playing a 49 hz full duty cycle. I also have 2 c&d 100 pound batteries. Anyway I interested in your experiences also. Thanks !

[nick_19 1]

Haha point taken thanks for the opinions. I went ahead with Excessive because my alt needed to be custom built and Nathan was just a real great guy to talk to on the phone and seems to have a product to back up. Mechman's website is down and I'm fairly sure they don't carry an alt for my car in stock. The stator will need to be custom wound so the build time was 2 weeks but that's fine. I'll get it around New Year's hopefully, but knowing shipping this time of year, probably a little later. I'll post up with my experience when all is said and done.

I see you have a 06 Grand Prix. I have a old 04 Grand Prix, I went with powerbastards alternator 220 amp. It it working fine now for 6 months. Im allways willing to change to something better.

Please post more about your experience with your alternator. I run a single 15 with 2 sundown 1500s strapped. My best so far is 152.0 db and my voltage stays at 14.2 volts at the amps constantly playing a 49 hz full duty cycle. I also have 2 c&d 100 pound batteries. Anyway I interested in your experiences also. Thanks !

I will do man. I will be running 2000-3000 watts, but I will only be using my starter battery. I might try to check out your system sometime if I'm around Dallas. I'm down in College Station.

[Bass212 0]

Haha point taken thanks for the opinions. I went ahead with Excessive because my alt needed to be custom built and Nathan was just a real great guy to talk to on the phone and seems to have a product to back up. Mechman's website is down and I'm fairly sure they don't carry an alt for my car in stock. The stator will need to be custom wound so the build time was 2 weeks but that's fine. I'll get it around New Year's hopefully, but knowing shipping this time of year, probably a little later. I'll post up with my experience when all is said and done.

I see you have a 06 Grand Prix. I have a old 04 Grand Prix, I went with powerbastards alternator 220 amp. It it working fine now for 6 months. Im allways willing to change to something better.

Please post more about your experience with your alternator. I run a single 15 with 2 sundown 1500s strapped. My best so far is 152.0 db and my voltage stays at 14.2 volts at the amps constantly playing a 49 hz full duty cycle. I also have 2 c&d 100 pound batteries. Anyway I interested in your experiences also. Thanks !

I will do man. I will be running 2000-3000 watts, but I will only be using my starter battery. I might try to check out your system sometime if I'm around Dallas. I'm down in College Station.

Im a MECP Advanced Certified install tech at Fry's Electronics in Arlington. Stop by if you want to hear my system. However Im allways messing around with my system. Never know its condition

because when Im competeing i have a different setup. I have a SPL setup and a Music setup. Anyway take it easy.