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OK Wednesday I got home parked the car (88 Turbo) and let my greddy TT count down from about 2 minutes. Next morning wake up and the car won't start. I look @ the Voltmeter and it's reading 6V so I jump start the car with my mom's Suburban. Car fires up. I disconnect the negative side of the battery to see if the alternator is working. Engine starts to shake a little so I figured it was the alternator going bad. I was on my way to work so I figured I would make it and I would change the alternator there were I had an extra one. Well I made it half way when the car dies. I get over and nothing has any power. I assume it's the alternator and call a tow truck. I get it to the shop and find the ALT fuse link burnt, the EFI fues burnt, Radio1 fuse burnt, ECU fuse burnt, CIG fuse burnt, and Cluster fuse burnt. But It didn't stop there. My ECU also got fried. The power antenna got hit so did the Profec A, Greddy TT, and the autometer A/F guage. I got the alternator tested and it bad. I replaced all the fuses took everything that got toasted out and replaced the ECU with a 7MGTE A/T spare I had (mine is a M/T) car runs now with the spare alt I had. The alternator kept it going @ first but now after a little while running @ idle it won't stay on with only the alt and no battery unless I rev it @ around 1-1.2K+ Any theories? oh and the Heart of Texas Shootout is tomorrow 