Yeah, the alternator and short protection is a must-do. I have a 100 amp intergrated alternator. This is what I was told, so you can put as much creedence in it as you like. The problem with the early model intergrated alternators is that they can only accept--whatever hodegmoes that make amperage--60 amp contracptions. One of my coworkers, an alternator man, changed out the hodgemoe with a later model 100 amp contracption. He had to grind out a portion inside of the case to mif.

The 3 lines that feed the amps are fused on the solenoid terminal. The battery to alternator line, an always hot wire that runs the full lenght of the car, has fuseble links on both ends. The starter wire, hot only when energized, and the short lead from the battery are the only possible hazards, but there is no more hazard than the latent hazard in the factory design.