Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
#32
RE: Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
Oh man that looks so cool... so do you have a sound system at all? I just dont understand what your battery wires are connected to... on one side you have two blue wires coming out of that clamp and on the other side you have a clamp but two black wires... and then a blue wire wrapped around the battery... what are all those wires doing? and what are the two blue ones connecting to?
I read your explaination but I dont know what dizzi is... and distributors... I dont think my car has distributors...
I read your explaination but I dont know what dizzi is... and distributors... I dont think my car has distributors...
#34
RE: Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
OK i did a little MS pain editing to explain, a distributor or dizzi for short is your ignition distributor for your spark-plugs I'm sure you know that and just didn't know what i was referring to...it is circled in yellow. the cable marked in green is the battery grounding wire (negative post on battery) the cable with the red mark is the grounding cable i added for the dizzi, since it was so close the the battery i went ahead and grounded it directly instead of the the frame. the cabled marked in purple are the cars power cables ( positive post on battery). if you didn't notice that small box hooked to the side of my battery is a fuse/power splitter for 4g cable. the cable marked in light blue are 2 4g cables running out of the fuse/splitter box one 'will' go to my amp which i don't have yet (will buy soon) and the other goes to the DC/DC power-supply/shutdown controller for my car-computer which is also not quite done. the cable marked in red is the power cable that will run from the fuse/splitter box to the battery. but since i don't have an amp or my car-computer running yet i don't want bare cables in my trunk with power so i don't have that cable hooked up to my battery right not and just have it laying across the top. i hope that cleared things up...if there's anything you didn't quite get let me know and ill try and explain it better.
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#36
RE: Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
the connectors i got from a local car audio shop called BigDaddys. here is a photo of them beside a quarter for size reference, the cheap ones that you can buy everywhere are not made well and the surface area that touches the car is not very big...these are a lot wider. you will probably only be able to buy ones like this at car audio shops. the black thing is a rubber boot to cover the crimped part to make is look nice and clean.
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#37
RE: Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
the cost of the cable and crimp connectors probly cost me $20 at the most but probly more in the $15 range. i used leftover 4g cable from my amp and car-computer power wires job. you could do grounds with 8g cable just fine and it be even cheaper
#38
RE: Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
Thanks for the help... I really didnt know what any of those words meant and I dont know where they are located on my 7th gen... hehehe I think I can afford 20 bucks I am really interested in doing car stuff by myself but I end up chickening out and paying a shop to do it.
#40
RE: Engine Grounding kits ? Worth the trouble
Okay here is my engine bay... could someone illustrate where these wires are going to go?
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