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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 07:11 PM
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Originally posted by Viagra_Racing
Okay I've seen a thick gauge wire going from battery negative to a grounding plate. There are also four or five other wires coming from that plate.

One to the starter cause that draws a lot of power on starting (battery may drop down to 9V from 12)

One to the alternator so that it gets more power than a stock puny ass wire.

One to the block (don't know why)

One to the trans (don;t know why on this one either)



Now the first two I can understand. They help aid with the drawing of power, etc. The last two however, I'm having a little trouble understanding.

Now I don't care if any dyno proven power is made or raw power unleashed, I just want to have a little better current flowing through the system. If that's okay.

So all I seek is where the most common points are and maybe why they would be good points. Not where the most power comes from or any of that shit.

This is along the same lines as if you put the blue headlights in that it's helpful to reground the light plug so it has less chance of blowing up....

Thanks for any HELPFUL advice or an attempt of....
Sure if you have a bad ground (a problem) it could help put your car back to where it should be. But these kits are a joke, they are designed to make money off of ricers. You cleared it up yourself; I have never seen anyone make power off of a better grounded alternator or starter. Now you believe it but you don’t know why you would ground the engine? Come on, if you will gain anything it will be because the engine had a poor ground and some of the sensors where not reading correctly due to it.
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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 07:20 PM
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John we will see what a grounding wire kit will do on my car NA, we need to find out if that crap makes a difference or not...then when i boost we will dyno it then uninstall it and dyno and see if there is any difference, we need to get to the bottom of this
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