Ground Kit
 

Has anybody run a ground kit here? I am obviously not looking for horsepower but I run an amp subs, and a 55watt/channel deck and i was thinking that this could help. I put in MSD ingniton on top of all that a while ago and i think it was too much. now the MSD is pulled and the car acts teh same with the electrical system bouncing all over the place and such. lights strobe, car doesnt charge but its totaly dependant on temperature. the colder it is the more fucked up it runs.

Trying to find out if this will help calm my ---- down.

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I don't have near the electrical load you do, but I noticed a difference when I made mine. Headlights didn't dim when the brakes or other electrical devices were on, interior lights as well for example.

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ive always hated when the lights dim when the radio is playing loud. i'll check into one of those ground kits if i ever decide to get a radio lol

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Well I have had the battery tested and alt tested and both are good so I am goign to grab one and swap out my fuse box for the last time and see if that solves my issues. if so the fucker will see boost next weekend provided it runs good on the basemap.

hoping to get some new suspension for Xmas as well. Maybe some adjustable Tokiko's and some sprint springs is abotu where im leaning. Anybody know a good spring that only drops like around 1"-1.5"? best bang for buck was sprint so far.

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Does suspension techniques make a spring kit for your car? Their drops are usually around 1" and geared more towards performance handling than slamming a vehicle to the ground.

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Yes they do but they are 1.5 fron and 2" drop rear and I dunno about that. I was thinking that it might look goofy. I've read that the sprint springs tend to settle around 1" - 1.5"

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You don't have to buy one, you can make one yourself from stereo cable and a grounding bar from home depot. cost you like $20 bucks or so.

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Hmm.. What kind of car is this going on?

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ooh good point, i think i seen a ---- load of that cable laying around a friend of mines house. but what is a grounding bar?

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97 Honda Civic EX.

Thats a good tip about the grounding bar type ----. I will have to search on that.

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I made my own grounding kit. Using a grounding block from Homedepot. And 8gauge wires. I grounded to like 6-8 different spots on the motor. I dont know if there was any power gain or anything. But my car idled much smoother. :y

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So im going to go this route more than likely, so other than re-doing factory ground points with thicker wire is there any particular places I should throw an extra? Ive heard TB to chassis, Alt to Chassis, Valve Cover to Chassis...

Trying to do it either this week or weekend. I'll post up pics when I figure it out.

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The valve cover should already have a ground.

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I did a dizzy to chassis too, make sure the valve cover and tranny ones are still good also

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i stole an actual spoon ground kit (not a knock off) from a friend. it was horrible, the clamp for he ground on the battery post seemed xtremely tight but in reality it was too lose and wasnt making a connection resulting in about 8 hours of pissed off. just replace the stock grounds with better wires and be done with it. hell make more grounds if you want, but keep away from the circle things on the battery posts.

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ground kit and a capacitor

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I need to do this, my car runs like ass because of the 21 year old ground wire and single 8 gauge cable..

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i'm thinking about doing this but with either 4 or 6 gauge wires

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What is your audio setup?

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me? at the moment i don't even have a radio lol, but the car i'm buying this weekend will have one. my last car just had a kenwood deck, JL components, alpine rears and a 600 watt amp going to a 12" L7. everytime it would hit my lights would dim like a son of a bitch.

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Kenwood 920 Amp pushing 2 Infinity 10's and a Exelon 7 somehting deck, the color one. Fosgate tweets up front and Kenwood 4 way 6x9's out back that need replacing to be honest.

amp looks like this but im not sure about the model number
http://www.amazon.com/KENWOOD-KAC725...outThisProduct

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...and your having problems with dimming? I was running a 900 Watt Rockford amp, two Audiobahn 12"s, Pioneer Premiers 6.5's, Pioneer head unit 55x4 watts, 4 tweeters, and at one time a 7"TV and DVD player with no dimming on my Civic. I did however have some noise in the lines which a nice ground would have fixed.

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Ok heres the story. I dropped MSD in it and it blew the ELD. this caused all kinds of fluxuations in the car and ----, Strobing lights, car runs off the battery and doesnt charge till it chills out, speedo went out, chaos really. so it does all that cause of the ELD but before I spend the dough and drop a fuse box in it I wanted to check this out to see if it might help my situation or give me some added insurance against blowing another ELD.

Beofre I put in the MSD though it would dim out like a champ when the bass hit though, Even running it unbridged it would still suck out some power. Your statement gives me confidence though I was wondering if maybe a funky alt couldnt cause this but if your took all that mine should be ok with this.