Really that sounds like a great ideaIf you need to get another alternator you could upgrade to the AD244, it uses the same plug and is not supposed to need the resistor. I have an AD244 and with the CS144 that I was using I had the resisitor so I used the same sire witht he reistir for the AD244 and it working great but I have read the AD244 doesn't need the resistor.