Grounding Kits

[AltezzaScott]

Whio has one, as if they are considered to be a worth while investment a group buy could be on the horizon!!

Must admit, the last Altezza i sold had one fitted, and it did seem to make a difference.

[tdiplc]

What do you mean by "grounding kit"?

[AltezzaScott]

This,( the blue cable coming from the negative of the battery), not sure what its called over here?

[ColinBarber]

Known more as an earthing kit in the UK.

Have a teck kit on my car. Maybe made the idle very slightly more stable but nothing really. People in the US seem to think it makes a difference to the IS300 e-shift.

http://www.teckkits.com

[Rob]

hi Scott, have a quick look HERE mate.

this was brought up a while ago

rob

[Scorpion]

Make your own one....just a thought :winky:

[AltezzaScott]

Thanks guys, think i might get one for my next Tezz.....Gonna get a Blue Tezz, so Blue grounding kit it is!!

[ColinBarber]

Would have cost me nearly the same to make my own as buying one (£60). I guess you can make them cheap if you use poor quality cable and connectors but then you aren't going to improve things.

[AltezzaScott]

Can get them for about £50. They do look good in the engine bay..

[ColinBarber]

Can get them for about £50. They do look good in the engine bay..

If you just want bling then just get some coloured sleeving. Should cost you £10 max.

[Scorpion]

Cant see the point unless you've got a perspex bonnet.

[Bazza]

Cant see the point unless you've got a perspex bonnet.

where can i get one ? :P

[GreyBeard]

Thanks guys, think i might get one for my next Tezz.....Gonna get a Blue Tezz, so Blue grounding kit it is!!

eBay currently (3/1/2004) have some for sale on buy it now at $23, item number: 2451864647

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[SteveAudioX]

I remember Si Skippy had something simular under his hood.

[Zee007]

I remember Si Skippy had something simular under his hood.

Yep - he has a HKS Circle Earth Kit.....

[DUNCAN]

I'll have one if this turns into a group buy.

[Mark D]

Would have cost me nearly the same to make my own as buying one (£60). I guess you can make them cheap if you use poor quality cable and connectors but then you aren't going to improve things.

Go to a car audio shop, or Maplins and you can buy the cable and connectors much cheaper than that. Maplins will sell red and black cable and some car audio dealers will sell blue and silver cable. A meter of 4awg (25mm2) cable should only cost about 4-5 quid.

The copper will be very fine stranded (as it's designed for low volt, High current use) and the connectors will have that all important gold plating which should protect against corrosion.

[ColinBarber]

1600+ strand OFC Battery cable is not that cheap. That sort of cable ranges from £8 to £20 per metre in Maplin. Probably have a few metres + the connectors + a crimp tool + solder + an hour making them up + washers + 3 or 4 bolts required to fit it etc.

[Mark D]

I can get 2085 strand OFC cable for about £4/m and the gold plated ring crimps for 50p each.

Taking a need for 4m (being generous) and 16 crimps totals £24.

Tie wraps and bolts should only be another few quid making a kit price of less than £30 less time and the crimping tool and solder.

I work in the electronics manuf'ing industry, so getting a wee drop of solder isn't a problem. And I'm fairly sure I could borrow a crimping tool.

[ColinBarber]

Mark, maybe you should start making them up for people. If you can get some nice coloured cable I'm sure there would be people here willing to pay £50 a kit. :)

[Mark D]

The 2085 stranded cable comes in silver or blue. I'd happily make up some kits but I'd feel guilty charging £20 for an hours work

£40 for the kit seems like a much more reasonable price to me B)

Only problem is I'd need to get some info on the locations of fitting, or exact lengths of cables required.

[jac114]

so You hook it up to the - on the Battery.. then a couple of engine points then a few body points and back to the Battery -?? or just stop at the last body point??

jac

[ColinBarber]

I think the HKS one goes back to the Battery. No real reason for this, the electricity flow isn't going to go around in a circle however you want short runs with the least number of connections in between to keep the resistance as low as possible.

My one has a couple of connections off the Battery. They go to earth points within the engine bay and then multiple cables are run from there to various locations (two heads, throttle body, manifold, two front wings).