Hi Nick...don't know if your still working on this or not, but in looking at your engine pic I have a couple observations...one is that your A/C comp. sure looks like a starter to me, but that aside if you look at it, what's holding it and the pulley up besides the belts? same for the alternator. I've never seen this kit so I don't know if their are brackets of some sort supplied, I would think in a large scale kit they would have engineered it better if this is the way the instr. show buttt.. this is a common problem with many 1/24/25 kits where things like the alternator are apparently "floating" on air I usually fashion my own brackets so I'm not surprised if this is how they made it...anyways good luck on this project, hope ya get er done