The Camaro Club (UK)

Interestingly, it seems to be "normal".
This person noted the same, for a minute i thought i was reading a post of mine as he even has the same name:
http://www.thirdgen.org/forums/electron ... drops.html

Seems as though it's common and alternator related during high load, but appears to be not causing harm. Down the line if i get the chance, i may upgrade the alternator to a 140amp one. For now.. looks like it can be left as is.

There are quite a few posts along the same lines:
http://www.thirdgen.org/forums/esp_sear ... e&type=gcs

I'll still do the headlight relay upgrade for good measure to shorten the pathing. I have long weekends for the rest of the month as i haven't used all of my holiday up for the year, so that will help with getting things done!

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With the engine running set your voltmeter to read AC voltage. Connect the positive to the alternator output and the negative to ground. If you get a reading over 2 volts, you have a bad diode in the alternator. Feeding a battery AC will fry it real fast.

Thanks Neil, that's a good idea - i'll give that a try on Friday. Just as i said things seem to be ok, this morning on the way into the car park, i go down several flights so i'm braking (steep so have to go slow and try and not scrape) the engine cut out. I turned the key and fired back up, but the 'service engine light' came on and stayed on. I went down the next flight and it happened again (made sure clutch was depressed to be sure i didn't stall it) and it cut out again. Started it up again and this time the service engine light didn't come on. Went down the final flight and gave it a little rev and then parked and it didn't stall. Not sure what happened there :/

I've got a long weekend coming up so can do the ac volt test, swap out the fuel filter, test the fuel (as advised in one of the other topics) etc.

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